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This is the place to sort, search and review all the classic What Is Going On in the world? moments. Results are sorted by vote count and month, at the moment you can provide your own vote number cutoff, browse different months, or filter all the results by a keyword.

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107Say it with me, 4 more years!
85The President: "Rape is rape. And the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we are talking about doesn't make sense to the American people and certainly doesn't make sense to me...I think these comments do underscore why we shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women."
85Bridge? Spock here. Beam me up. UPDATE: There's Klingons off the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow...
84RIP Robin Williams. (Well, that didn't take long)
83Gay marriage is legalized in New York State.
82 The US Supreme Court upholds 'Obamacare' Update: Oh God, the irony, it burns!
81After 47 GOP Senators breach federal law by writing to Iran, telling them that any nuclear deal made with Obama could be repealed by the next President, it turns out an Iranian minister knows more about international law and the US Constitution than these 47 fuckwits.
80You don't need abortion exceptions for when the woman was raped, because if she got pregnant, it wasn't really rape. Todd Akin sets a new record for being a shitbag.
79At last, Sir Terry, we must walk together. Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. The End.
77"Skeptic" offers 100,000 Euro reward to prove Measles is a virus (rather than psychosomatic), is ordered to pay up.
76President Obama declares his support for marriage equality.
76Fred Phelps is dead. [1] On the UN "Day of Happiness."
75The UK has officially banned creationism from being taught in science classes..
72The wife of a Texan anti-LGBT crusader left him... for a woman.
69In a massive study involving 95,000 children, researchers have confirmed that there is no connection between the MMR vaccine and autism, even in high-risk populations. Focus is now shifting on studying the effectiveness of the drinking of water as a preventative measure against dehydration, and whether or not the habitual inhalation of oxygen is an effective deterrent against death.
67Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) condemns evolution and the Big Bang as "lies straight from the pit of hell." Of course he's on the House science committee.
66 At least one US ally has had enough - The Australian Deputy Prime Minister declares that "cranks and crazies" have taken over the US Republican party. Update: the Prime Minister is backing him.
65Osama bin Laden is dead. The US military has his body. Everything will be all right now, we can return to total worldwide peace. Maybe. (BTW, in a bit of no-doubt intentional irony, this news comes on the eighth anniversary of Dubya's so-called Mission Accomplished speech.)
65So Kent Hovind is suing us. (404? Try this.)
64All hail the BBC.
63California bans reparative therapy for minors.
63Anti-vax mother changes her mind after all 7 of her children get whooping cough. And is quite brave to be public about it IMO.
61Pregnancy From Rape Is 'Something God Intended. Will the stupid never stop?
61DOMA officially struck down by SCOTUS, declared unconstitutional as a violation of the Fifth Amendment. The court case, U.S. v. Windsor, was over the estate tax, claiming discrimination against a lesbian widow on basis of sex. Meanwhile,teabaggers' heads explode. ADDITIONAL GAYNESS: No decision on Prop 8 ruling,lower court ruling upheld, same sex marriage legal inCalifornia.
61In Nevada, a brave Patriot a freeloading, self-centered dipshit named Cliven Bundy lets his cattle graze on government land illegally for the past 20 years, and now the government has confiscated his cows. Tea Party and libertarian whackers too lazy to fact-check make him out to be some sort of hero, and a militia group shows up to defend him. Unsurprisingly, Alex Jones is circle jerking to the news. Update: The BLM gives in to armed protesters. Not a good precedent.
60In Pakistan, clerics issue a fatwa against honor killings.
60Quakers running new Underground Railroad to help LGBT folk escape Uganda.
59Vote up if you approve of the job United States President Barack Obama is doing or vote down if you disapprove. Vote neutral if you neither approve nor disapprove.
59The Britons are set to pass gay marriage!
59Israel says "fuck you" to 20% of its population.
58Proposition 8 overturned by federal judge.
58With Obama's signature, DADT is gone!
58If Obama is for environmentalism -- or anything else, for that matter -- then we're against it in the stupidest way possible.
57Introducing the two latest contestants in the GOP's balls-to-the-wall batshit crazy contest -- state representative Jon Hubbard and candidate Charlie Fuqua, both of Arkansas. Hubbard has trotted out the old white-hood canard that slavery was good for the slaves, while Fuqua advocates in his book God's Law that all Muslims should be expelled from the US. Not satisfied with a tie, Fuqua has now gone the extra distance by advocating the death penalty for rebellious children. Take that, Todd Akin!!
57The LGBT Jim Crow equivalent has been proposed in Kansas. Fucking hell.
56The first man to walk on another world, Neil Armstrong, has died at the age of 82. His family asks "Next time you walk outside on clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil and give him a wink."
5615% of Ohio Republicans believe Romney killed bin Laden.[No, not The Onion]
56After two years, a documentary about vaccination, made by high school students and suppressed by anti-vaxx activists, has finally been released.
56President Obama to parents doubting ‘indisputable’ science: ‘Get your kids vaccinated’
55According to Rick Perry, "Satan runs wild across the world," and the separation of Church and State is hence Satan's fault.
55Sorry to rain on your parade, New Mexico: A federal judge has smashed another same-sex marriage ban. In Utah. Update: "The court agrees with Justice Scalia’s interpretation of Windsor and finds that the important federalism concerns at issue here are nevertheless insufficient to save a state-law prohibition that denies the Plaintiffs their rights." Yes, you read that correctly - Scalia's opinion was just used against him. (Grab some popcorn.)
55Here we go again: Six dead in a series of drive-by shootings and stabbings near UC Santa Barbara. (Gunman was the son of a Hollywood director and quoting the usual MRA spiel.) Update: An "incel" site is freaking. Update II: All guns legally purchased and registered. "When will this insanity stop?"
54Another week, another Romney gaffe. And the shit just keeps on flowing.
54In the UK, religious schools will lose government funding if they don't teach evolution as a fact.
54Margaret Thatcher is dead.
54Croatian Constitutional Court upholds the constitutionality of mandatory vaccination of children, stating that the right of children to have good health is more important than the right of parents to make wrong decisions.(In English.)
54So, how bad is it to be an African-American in Ferguson, Missouri? In 2009, the Ferguson PD arrested and (allegedly) beat a man inside the police station after finding out that they had arrested the wrong man. Then they charged him with "property damage" -- Translation: Bleeding on their uniforms after they beat him.
54Well, gosh: crocoduck just showed up. Guess evolution must be true, then.
54President Obama uses this year's turkey pardon to stick it to the GOP on immigration: "I am here to announce what I'm sure will be the most talked about executive action this month. Today, I am taking an action fully within my legal authority, the same kind of action taken by Democrats and Republican presidents before me, to spare the lives of two turkeys, Mac and Cheese, from a terrible and delicious fate. . . They'll get to live out the rest of their days respectively at a Virginia estate with 10,000 acres of roaming space. I know some will call this amnesty."
54In view of the Hobby Lobby decision, the Satanic Temple strikes back by filing a lawsuit to exempt their followers from reading pro-life literature which is required in some states when planning to have an abortion. Their argument is that since their beliefs are solely based on scientific facts, and because much of this literature's content is not based on science, having to read it would inflict their freedom of religion.
54Charlie Hebdo: What do you do after much of your staff is murdered on the job? Cease publication? Suspend operations temporarily? How about publish next week's issue on schedule and print over 20 times the standard run.
54Started a week ago, but in case you missed it: In what is called the biggest banking leak in history, over 50 media outlets around the world publish documents, showing that the Swiss arm of the HSBC bank actively helped their customers evade taxes in their home countries. Among them are high-value criminals and, on the same other side, prominent persons and wealthy donors of Clinton's charity or the British Tory party. Side note: The revelations came at a time when Ed Miliband was under fire for being “anti-business” because of his agenda against tax evasion by businesses. Now Cameron has to explain why he made the former HSBC boss Stephen Green his trade minister back in 2011, four months after the first evidence for misbehavior by HSBC was available to him; and why the British tax authority achieved four-times worse in enforcing tax repayals compared to France or Spain. Timeline of events leading up to this, Full story.
53We currently cannot predict earthquakes, but when someone dies we need a scapegoat.
53According to Republican Washington state legislator Ed Orcutt, a proposed bicycle tax is essential because cyclists aren't environmentally friendly due to all the CO2 they exhale. "[b]icyclists need to start paying for the roads they ride on rather than make motorists pay".
53The much anticipated debate between Bill Nye and creationist whacker Ken Ham finally unfolds. Nye and science won.
53Belgium gives homeopathy statutory regulation. Nobody meets statutory criteria. Homeopathy effectively banned. (Still operating until the statutory guillotine falls.)
53Air Force: 'So help me God' in oath is optional
53Ohioan county jail threatens solitary confinement on a Muslim woman for refusing to go to Church; woman sues state for violating the constitution.
53Score a win for net neutrality Update: That didn't take long Update: Now verizon starts trolling.
52The White House's response to the Death Star petition is made of win. Update: Best comment so far.
52On Christmas day, Neil deGrasse Tyson posted this tweet and Christian fundamentalists lost their collective shit guaranteeing increased coverage. On the 27th, NDT commented on the kerfuffle and the fun continued (including in the Facebook comment section at the bottom of the page).
52Anti-vax book "Melanie’s Marvelous Measles" gets 800 one-star reviews on Amazon.
51North Carolina's Tea Party-dominated legislature moves to criminalize accurate predictions of sea level rise. Trends: they don't work that way.
51Former Green Bay Packer LeRoy Butler was scheduled to give a lecture at a local church on Tuesday night. Butler's presentation was cancelled after he tweeted congratulations to Jason Collins for coming out of the closet. The pastor told Butler that he would only be allowed to give his presentation if he retracted the tweet and asked Gawd for forgiveness. The subject of that night's discussion? Bullying.
51Years of scientific research being burned and lost in Canada. Claims that it's all backed up digitally are proving to be untrue. It's almost as if the Harper government is afraid of the data.
51FUCK! The Professional Standards Authority has accredited the Society of Homeopaths as a holder of an approved voluntary register of health-care practitioners. (UK) What is this country coming to?
51Take us down the slippery slope, part umpteen: Now the aftermath of the Hobby Lobby decision now extends to allowing the refusal of subpoenas due to violation of religious beliefs.
51Sorry, Harry Reid, you're too Democratic to be a Mormon.
51Charlie Hebdo's Paris office was attacked by Islamists, 12 people dead. UPDATE: The shooters have reportedly been identified; one has reportedly turned himself into the police, claiming he was not in Paris the day of the shooting.
51Oklahoma GOP lawmakers protecting your precious kids from that there book larnin': they have literally passed emergency legislation to ban AP US History classes, partially on the grounds that it's not nothing but pro-US propaganda. Some want to ban all AP classes. UPDATE: Instead, students would have to study the 10 Commandments and speeches by Saint Ronnie.
51Barack Obama calls for end to 'conversion therapies' for LGBT youth
51Chimpanzees in Fongoli, Senegal, have invented spears.
50Obama to Trump: Go fuck yourself. lol. (Seth Meyers, on the other hand doesn't pull any punches.)
50Faux News, classy as ever, blames the Norwegian attacks on "Muslim extremists", then segues straight into a story on the Ground Zero Mosque. Here's the twist: the lead suspect is a blond, blue eyed, right-wing Christian fundamentalist with anti-Muslim views.
50Sometimes you can't make this shit up: Rick Santorum Says "Smart People Will Never Be On Our Side"
50Madiba has passed away at 95.
50"So, Reince, who are our top candidates for 2016?"
"We've got a Randroid, two theocrats, a Canadian citizen, a Jim Crow apologist, Santorum, an up-and-comer who ruined his only relevant speech, an execution addict, the brother of one of the worst Presidents in history, and a crook."
"And who's our best bet?"
"The crook." Update: If you can't take the heat, poison the well.
50A kid tries to come out as gay. His family is less than understanding. Watch the video only if you want to feel depressed. The last couple of minutes are particularly painful. You can help him live without the bigots here if you feel moved enough.
50Misinformation about the Ebola crisis: it gets worse. American professor, Dr. Cyril Broderick, published a wildly speculative and conspiratorial article in a very popular Liberian paper claiming the epidemic was caused by the US Military, WHO/CDC/Doctors Without Borders, and Big Pharma.
50Malala Yousafzai shares the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
50In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has struck down laws against assisted suicide
50Bill O'Reilly faces another ethics question after he states in Killing Kennedy he was outside the home of George de Mohrenschildt as he committed suicide in Florida (he related hearing the shotgun blast)...even though he was caught recorded on tape as being in Dallas at the time where he worked as a reporter. Also(blog) Another fabrication: O'Reilly never witnessed the murder of nuns in El Salvador
50According to a new poll, most Americans do not support ‘religious freedom’ laws.
49May 21st came and went to a noticeable lack of Apocalypse.
49"Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would be belittling for Margaret. Sarah Palin is nuts."
49Wait for it, wait for it… New Zealand set to pass gay marriage. (Live stream.) Update: bill passes with 77 votes for to 44 against - and the chamber breaks out in song. Update II: Conservatives Chris Auchinvole and Maurice Willaimson deliver the awesome.
49Female Texas Judge declares raped teen not a victim, because she wasn't a virgin at the time.
49Faux News once again wallows in the mire: Shooter acted because he "could not cope with his 'homosexual impulses'.”
49The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will deny funds to states whose governors refuse to acknowledge climate change.
48Texas GOP platform opposes the teaching of critical thinking skills. (see p.12 of the PDF, section heading "Knowledge-Based Education" - platform also includes abstinence-only sex ed and teaching the controversy.)
48The only way to say this is is to say it straight: Pope Francis washed the feet of a female Muslim prisoner, sparking fears among conservative Catholics over women priests.
48Pensacola, Florida passes an ordinance making it illegal for homeless people to use blankets.
48Uganda anti gay law declared unconstitutional illegally passed. Maybe there's hope yet in the world.
48Being Black in Public claims another victim in the US. Of course, the thug was dressed as an anime character and carrying a toy sword. He was apparently shot in the back while running away. If only he'd been an "open carry" nutter. And white.
48While MRAs are busy complaining about video game journalism, UK charity #BEAT starts campaign to draw attention to men who suffer from eating disorders.
47"Catholic church 200 years behind the times" says dead cardinal.
47Wisconsin elects the U.S.'s first openly gay senator.
47Retired Archbishop of Canterbury says to "persecuted" Western Christians, "Grow up": the only people who are suffering "real persecution" are those who live every day in fear of being killed.
47WND is usually a Clog, but here it is reporting Actual News: Google Ads is threatening to cut off service to them as a hate site.
47Fred Phelps has apparently been excommunicated from the WBC and is near death. Update: WBC's spokesman Stephen Drain confirms that Fred is is in a care facility.
4716-0 the score as a federal judge throws out Indiana's anti-gay marriage laws. In addition, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules Utah's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional.
46Fundie school forfeits state championship, rather than play against a girl.
46Your socialism at work, America. (Curiosity lands on Mars.)
46The US Army promotes its first openly gay general
46Oh no! Our boy, Paul Ryan, was caught out in a fake photo-op at a soup kitchen?! How shall we react? By punishing the soup kitchen.
46Pope Ratzy is resigning at the end of the month. (We're witnessing history here. The last Pope to do this was Gregory XII, in the 15th century.)
46Irony meters are SPROINGing eveywhere when a GOP Missouri state rep proposes legislation to make proposing gun control legislation a felony. His argument for a bill which violates the First Amendment? "We seem to be having a lot of people willing to further restrict our constitutional rights and take our rights."
45Most US soldiers don’t object to gay servicemembers says a poll conducted by that notorious left-wing, gay-loving institution... The Pentagon
45Obama Wins!!
450% of blacks for Mitt Romney. Not The Onion.
45Teen doodles in class. Staff notice, call police. Police execute search warrant of teen's home and arrest teen. Place your bets on how long before we hear the words "video games."
45Jon Huntsman comes out in support of same-sex marriage.
45Michele Bachmann doesn't understand how science works, blames government regulation for the continued existence of Alzheimer's disease.
45The new Miss America isn't white. Americans show their class. And ignorance.
45The Australian Vaccination-Skeptics Network is stripped of charity status over its misinformation.
45Mother of God. The House Majority Leader has lost his seat in the primary against a Teabagger. Starting in 2015, there will be zero Jewish Republicans in Congress. (There must be some quote out there pertaining to "unforseen consequences.") Update: Welcome to 1968. It's gonna be fun.
45Conservative 7th Circuit Judge smacks down the arguments against gay marriage one by one.
45Florida, where you are free to shoot your fellow man, so long as you make sure you kill them, but don't give homeless people food.
44JOY! JOY! Hosni Mubarak steps down as President of Egypt
44Top Romney aide: "We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers."[No, not The Onion]
44People seeking U.S. citizenship must promise that they will take up arms to defend the country. Conscientious objectors may bypass this by submitting a letter from the elders of their church outlining the religious reasons for their pacifism. So if you're a 64-year-old atheist and pacifist who has spent the last three decades teaching illiterate Americans to read, screw you!
44A Houston area psychic has been ordered to pay $6.8 million for accusing a couple of having a mass grave filled with dismembered bodies in their backyard. (She called the police when she found out that two of her psychic friends were having similar visions.)
44Illinois passes gay marriage and becomes the 15th US state to join the 21st century.
44Arizona Senate panel votes to dump Common Core standards, claiming "some of the reading material is borderline pornographic" and that the program uses "fuzzy math" that "substitutes letters for numbers in some examples."
44Michele Bachmann explodes irony meters across the globe, by saying, that the Tea Party "at its core is an intellectual movement."
44Because being transphobic is not bigoted enough, meet a school that's tomboy-phobic.
44Obama to sign executive order banning federal government contractors from discriminating against gay and transgender workers. Right-wing meltdown coming soon.
44The Nazis continue to break irony meters after 80 years.
44Heroic doctor dies of ebola
44Utah blogger fired over homophones
44The U. S. Supreme Court denies review in all gay marriage related appeals currently pending. The decisions striking down the bans now take effect.
44Oklahoma state legislators are pushing for bills that would: require a confirmed religious official to perform a wedding, removing judges entirely from the process; remove any official who grants marriage licenses to gay couples; and legalize antigay discrimination.
43As if this will make the birthers shut up: Obama to release "long form" birth certificate. Addendum: A brief guide to what conspiracy theories birthers will rally around next.
43Obama on his re-election campaign strategy: "We may just run clips of the Republican debates verbatim."
43Arctic sea ice levels hit a record low. Gee, it's sure a good thing that global warming is a communist hoax, or I would be getting a bit worried right about now.
43Russia is preparing to ban offending the religious and giving information about homosexuality to minors. Because this can only end well, right?
43The government of the United States has shut down. It seems Aaron Sorkin became a prophet while overdosing on crack. Update: Take a very good look at the GOP nays in the final vote. In the words of Max Fisher, "America truly is exceptional." Update II: "Due to the gov't shutdown, all public NASA activities/events are cancelled or postponed until further notice. Sorry for the inconvenience." Before you ask, no, mission-critical support is not being shut down. (At least they're still able to laugh. Suspended. Fitting.)
43Ken Ham's Ark Park Project is sinking fast, thanks to atheists, secular bloggers, and possibly Satan.
43Sad news for female children in Iraq: A draft law has been approved by the Iraqi cabinet that would permit the marriage of nine-year-old girls and assert a husband’s right to insist on sexual intercourse with his wife whenever he wants. A mother also would have no rights to custody of their children after age 2.
43A federal judge in Tennessee grants a preliminary injunction against the state's same-sex marriage ban in certain cases, further remarking that, "proscriptions against same-sex marriage will soon become a footnote in the annals of American history."
43A four year old Oregon boy was beaten to death because his mother thought he was growing up gay.
43Arkansas' same-sex marriage ban falls. How many states does that make now?
43Two North Carolina black brothers have been released after rotting over 30 years on death row for a crime another man did. The police bullied them into making false confessions. Their father thanks Jesus they are out. Oh, BTW, Justice Scalia previously used this case as an argument for capital punishment.
43"Is there a problem, officer?" "Yes, ma'am. You're a 60-year-old woman who still hasn't accepted Jesus as your personal savior. Welcome to Indiana. Meanwhile, in Michigan, some cops still have a heart.
43Anti-theist is charged with a triple homicide against Muslims in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, allegedly over an ongoing parking dispute.
43More Republican medical "knowledge:" Cancer is a fungus and can be flushed from the body using salt water. This from a proposed bill, offering cancer sufferers "more options." The bill's proposer is CEO of a dubious healthcare company. (The bill is a "right to try" bill being pushed in several states by the Koch-Libertarian Goldwater Institute.)
43So the Siberian permafrost is melting at an accelerating rate, releasing methane, which causes more warming. But don't worry, Jim Inhofe—who is the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee—has scientifically proven that global warming doesn't exist because it snowed somewhere.
43Kent Hovind has been found guilty of contempt, faces sentencing on June 12th. Jury not convinced of fraudulent intent.
42GOP state Rep. Phillip Hinkle, who recently voted for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, offered a young man him cash up front, with a tip of up to $50 or $60 "for a really good time."
42Rick Santorum suspends presidential campaign events to spend time with his hospitalized daughter. We at RationalWiki express our condolences and best wishes for her health.
42Pro-life until birth. Pat Robertson says you shouldn't adopt children who've been sexually abused, in case they grow up "weird."
42"Oh no, our mosque is too small to fit us all in!" "Here, borrow our synagogue."
42Another candidate for the craziest member of the GOP! Cliff Russell of Virginia offers some "words of wisdom": "I'll tell you what really need to do with these illegitimate families on welfare – give all the kids up for adoption and execute the parents." He says this while organizing support for Mitt Romney.
42Mother's wish to have boy with cancer treated with alternative medicine is struck down in UK court.
42In the Republican Party's continuing gross misunderstanding of human biology, an Alabama lawmaker claims fetuses are "organs" that women shouldn't be allowed to "remove."
42 A gay teenager with Asperger's syndrome was viciously abused at his own birthday party; he was forced to strip down, had homophobic slurs written on his body, and was then set on fire. He died the next morning. The individual responsible gets a whopping three and a half year sentence.
42The Guardian reports that the NSA has been getting comprehensive call records of all Verizon customers' calls since April 25th, and they even published the secret court order, gag order included. (Anyone still indifferent about Bush v. Gore?) Update:The Senate's known this has been going on since 2007. Includes remark that no citizens have complained about this secret program. The intelligence communitylied to Congress about collecting domestic info, however.
42A Christian university in Nebraska has expelled a student in her final semester for being alesbian. Okay, so she can just transfer to another college to complete her degree, right? Not so fast. Because she breached the university's morality clause, they are requiring her to repay $6300, because they revoked her scholarship.
42In a sudden outbreak of common sense, Exodus Internationalcloses up shop, apologizes to the LGBT community for being a bunch of sanctimonious, holier-than-thou assholes.
42Holy shit - British Parliament votes against attacking Syria. Chance of this kind of vote happening in the US? Anyone...? Update: France, on the other hand...
42Jenny McCarthy finally fired from not renewed for The View... along with a host who didn't know the earth was round.
42 A group of evangelists, pretending to be gay friendly, offered free food at a Pride event, then went on to tell attendees that they will burn in Hell. More than a dozen people needed counselling after their encounter.
42Memo to US residents with kids in public high school: If they take a business education class called "Youth Entrepreneurs" (or with texts published by YE), be forewarned that it's a front funded by Koch Industries with the goal of turning them into good little libertarians.
42Minnesota's GOP candidate for their Supreme Court says the Bible trumps the Constitution.
42Pope Francis declares reiterates the Vatican position that theistic evolution and Big Bang theory are right
42New Zealand Green party to its MP's: we support evidence based medicine, so no you can't be health spokesman if you sign a stupid petition urging the WHO to treat ebola with homeopathy!
42Je suis en train d'intenter un procès. The City of Paris votes to sue Fox News over false reporting after the Charlie Hebdo killings.
42To the immense surprise of absolutely nobody, Hillary Clinton is running for president.
42In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of Canada rules that prayers at city council meetings are a violation of freedom of religion. (Link to judgment)
41Developing story: Wikileaks has released a 2007 gunsight camera video showing two Reuters journalists being killed by a US Apache helicopter crew. Roughly a dozen died, most unidentified Iraqi citizens, including some who arrived in a van and attempted to help one of the journalists escape the scene. The only known survivors were two children, wounded when the helicopter destroyed the van during the rescue attempt. Currently reporting indicates that the exact details of the incident were covered up, even after Reuters submitted a FOIA request and received documentation about the incident. The video and Wikileak's account can be found at collateralmurder.com, and you are urged to follow the story in your favored media outlets.
41When Senator Kyl (R-AZ) stated Planned Parenthood's involvement in abortion was 30x the actual number, his defense was that his remark was not intended to be a factual statement, but rather to illustrate that Planned Parenthood, a organization that receives millions of dollars in taxpayer funding, does subsidize abortions." Surely then there's no problem when we say Jon Kyl has been heavily involved with incestuous relationships (we're not intending it to be a factual statement, but rather to illustrate that Senator Kyl is a motherfucker).
41So, the UK now has a Health Minister who thinks homeopathy works, an Equality Minister who simply couldn't care less about gay people and a Minister for Transport who once ran over a cyclist. Fuck yeah!
41Ok, who gave Papa Bear the weed?
41Rape? You on a football team? One to two years. Hacking? Part of Anonymous? Ten years if not more.
41It seems that the Republicans have stepped even further into being the Party of No. A rules change allows only the majority leader to call for a vote to end the government shutdown. Update: China calls for a de-Americanized world economy. (Because losing your highest consumer base is a good idea? No, because having your economy pinned to the whims of dysfunctional idiots is unsustainable!)
41Rush Limbaugh says that filibuster reform is like subjecting the minority party to rape. Update: From 2004, How long until this page goes missing?img
41#CancelColbert; because some people just don't understand satire.
41"Oh no, the health care plan people voted for twice is starting to work."
41Operation American Spring: People turn up in their tens to overthrow the government. (UPDATE: American government remains non-overthrown.)
41Worker in Tennessee cotton warehouse records his boss's efforts at private-enterprise segregation, complete with white-only water fountains.
41South Carolina police chief, fired for being lesbian, reinstated.
41Climate-change denier compares the demonization of CO2 to Hitler's treatment of the Jews, because “carbon dioxide is actually a benefit to the world, and so were the Jews.”
41Idiots reinterpret studies stirs anger from the author of said studies. Business as usual. Nothing to see here.
41Ferguson gets worse: police assault and arrest reporters attempting to cover the events unfolding in the city. Additionally, a no-fly zone is established after a police helicopter is reportedly fired upon. Update: Collection of Tweets from military veterans reacting to the police response in Ferguson.
41Science being awesome again. Six years after launch, New Horizons sends back an "I'm awake!" message, as it prepares for final approach to Pluto.
41Sean Hannity's own fellow hosts and reporters at Fox News named him the network's worst host. Hannity responds by proving them right.
41A Fox affiliate in Baltimore altered footage to make it appear as if protesters in D.C. were chanting "kill a cop".
41Rand Paul states that he knows children who wound up with profound mental disorders from vaccination, so he wants to give parents a choice. One wonders if his source was the same as Michele Bachmann's that made her look like a goofball. Either way since Obama has come out in favor of vaccines then the GOP must come out against it. UPDATE: A new world record in backpedaling has been set.
41Hillary Clinton: "The earth is round and vaccines work".
40219-212
40The House Republicans' solution to the "problem" that the government will fund abortions for rape and incest victims? Redefine the words "rape" and "incest".
40Jon Stewart calls out Fox's hypocritical statements regarding the "poor destitute" $250,000 a year earners, while raging against the "greedy overpaid" teachers earning $50,000 with benefits.
40And so the crazy begins: Oklahoma doctor refuses to provide rape victim with emergency contraception, because it was against her religious beliefs.
40Intel ends support of Boy Scouts of America due to discriminatory policies.
40Donald Trump loses his shit, calls for revolution against his legally elected government.
40Kiwis pass gay marriage!
40It would appear that "the ethical treatment of animals" includes the slaughter of nearly 2700 house pets per year. "...[I]n the last 11 years, PETA has killed 29,426 dogs, cats, rabbits, and other domestic animals."
40Pro-life values? 13-year-old rape victim decides to keep the baby.Still gets slut-shamed by her redneck community.
40In God's One True Land, heathen Senator Wendy Davis is attempting tofilibuster a stupidly extreme anti-abortion bill She needs to keep speaking until 12 tonight. Best of luck. Update:Unknown if it passed in time. UPDATE II: After hours-long FUBAR and multiple media organizations reporting the opposite,confirmation that Senate Bill 5 did not reach the midnight deadline. She did it!
40Thanks to his 'contributions' to Ugandan law, Scott Lively is on trial for crimes against humanity.
40Irony meter shattered: the National Rifle Association has "a massive secret database of gun owners," including people who aren't members of the organization. Oh, what was that you were saying about the big bad gun registry? Update: Speaking of the NRA's chokehold on American society, a guy acquitted of murder goes to a shotgun factory.
40This is what happens when you apply Ayn Rand to real life.
40Ukrainian riot police allegedly beat up a busload of government supporters, mistaking them for opposition activists.
40Another domino falls. A U.S. district judge has overturned Michigan's bans on gay marriage and same-sex adoption.
40Manitoba woman demands that she be given the right to put the health of her kids classmates in danger and insists that Homeopathy works. The school and the Manitoba government side with science and public health.
40It's the end of the world as we know it... again.
40A victory for transgender rights: India's Supreme Court officially recognizes trans people as a distinct gender under the law.
40Guess which US news network has dropped all coverage of the Teabagger cop killers.
40Federal court upholds New York City school policy allowing schools to bar unvaccinated students.
40Ebola cured in 2 American health workers. Recovered Doctor calls it a miracle, thanks God, asks for prayers for Africa, doesn't seem to remember that there was some science involved.
40Part 3 of Atlas Shrugged has been drop-kicked into 242 US theaters. Critics at The Hollywood Reporter, io9.com, and The Arizona Republic are underwhelmed. Reason offers a 29-minute video by the producers. The producer previewed the movie at a Florida art school -- then complained that critics have judged the trilogy on its shitty production values instead of its message, because "attacking its underlying message...would be unethical."
40Putin finds Wikipedia dangerously informative, and has announced already underway plans for a Government-controlled version.
40Researchers: There isn't a STEM worker shortage, industry just wants cheap indentured labour.
40The CIA torture report is out. Highlights: they gravely lied to Congress and the White House, understated the brutality of their methods and the number of torture victims and exaggerated the value of the gathered information or even fabricated it; “At least 26 detainees were wrongfully held”; the CIA itself leaked classified information to journalists, exaggerating the success of interrogation methods in an effort to gain public support. Guardian summary, live feed, background; NYT key points, analysis; Full document (huge PDF). Update: Telling.
40Erdoğan : Birth control is treason.
4050,000 gallons of oil spill into Yellowstone River after a pipe line bursts.
40Revenge porn site founder guilty, faces 20 years in jail.
40Kirk Cameron cleans up at the Razzies.
40David Tredinnick, MP: If you don't think the NHS should use astrology for diagnosis, you're a RACIST!!
40Enceladus, Saturn's 6th largest moon, has a warm ocean with hydrothermal vents. This is the first ever discovered outside of Earth, and makes for the most habitable off-world environment ever found.
40The scientific evidence is starting to come in, and substandard vaccination rates are almost certainly to blame for the recent measles outbreak.
40Florida Governor Scott takes his anti-science purge to the next level with mental screening and all for Floridan officials who utter "climate change" or "global warming".
392010: Click up if you prefer "Twenty Ten," down if you prefer "Two Thousand (and) Ten." (No link, just the question.)
39A victory for the rational world - Creationism and ID out of Louisiana textbooks
39Newly-discovered Vatican letter warned Catholic bishops in Ireland that "'mandatory reporting' [of pedophiles to the police] gives rise to serious reservations of both a moral and canonical nature". It further threatened that, should pedophiles be reported to the police, in violation of what's evidently the Catholic moral code, the Vatican was likely to overturn their attempts to defrock said pedophile priests, which might be "highly embarassing and detrimental" to the bishops attempting to stop the outrages. This happened at least once, with the pedophile restored to the priesthood, and able to rape again. Does Catholicism even have any moral high ground to lose anymore?
39A Republican-backed legislation put forward in South Dakota shows just how far out of touch with reality pro-lifers are by attempting to legalize any member of a woman's immediate family justifiably murdering her abortion provider in "self defense of the fetus".
39Bye Bye Berlusconi! Update: "A chorus of Handel's 'Alleluia' rang out Saturday as Silvio Berlusconi resigned."
39Christopher Hitchens has died at age 62 of complications from cancer treatment.
39A Louisiana Republican lawmaker is shocked to discover that other, non-Christian religions will be allowed to set up schools under the state's new voucher system.
39"Yes, we spammed the comments section on your site but now we've just found out that Google's new algorithm doesn't like us doing that sort of crap. So here's a legal notice ordering you to remove our spam from your site."
39I'm too dumbfounded to even come up with any snark for this - A climate denial group change their opinion after (gasp) reviewing evidence.
39Fox News gets an early start on making excuses for Obama's re-election.
39Top Georgia GOP Lawmakers Host Briefing on Secret Obama Mind-Control Plot[No, not The Onion]
39Parishioner: "Your priest raped my daughters!" Cardinal George Pell: "So? Sue us if you don't like it."
39Remember that guy who said that the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun? He and his organisation can suck on this.
39Not WIGO-worthy: 15-year-old is bullied at a private Christian school in NY state, leaves from the harrassment. WIGO material: The bully was the principal and it was because the student was Canadian.
39The public healthcare budget in Edinburgh and the Lothians in Scotland just got better by a quarter of a million quid a year as NHS Lothian has its budget for homeopathy in favour of actual effective medical treatment.
39Woman in Dubai reports rape to police, gets sentenced to 16 months in gaol for having sex outside of marriage. Please sign the petitionhere. UPDATE: She's been released, but the rapist was also pardoned.
39In El Salvador if a woman miscarries it's assumed she deliberately induced an abortion or could have saved the baby. Women who didn't know they were pregnant or who couldn't have prevented a miscarriage face long prison terms. [2][3]
39UKIP councillor blames UK floods on gay marriage: The scriptures make it abundantly clear that a Christian nation that abandons its faith and acts contrary to the Gospel (and in naked breach of a coronation oath) will be beset by natural disasters such as storms, disease, pestilence and war."
39Oh, look. Bob Jones University has has joined the list of colleges that looked the other way regarding rape allegations. Except, of course, they took it to the next level by blaming the accusers and telling them not to go to the police because (a) nobody would believe them, and (b) the accusations would "damage Jesus Christ." And then they fired the consulting firm they hired to clean up the mess.
39Apple, Inc. to climate change deniers: fuck off. (Of course, it was probably the Comic Sans that really annoyed Tim Cook.)
39*BICEP2 scientists shove in to Peter Higgs* Hand over the Nobel, we've just completed the theory of relativity. (Full report here and live stream here.) Update: Potentially two Nobels.
39Jesus fucking Christ, Abbott.
39Just when you thought humanity couldn't get worse... turning an underage rape victim into a meme...
39Another Malaysian Airlines plane - nearly 300 passengers - has gone down. This time above separatist-controlled Donetsk in Ukraine. Update: *Cue Jaws theme* ("Russia may have just seen their national interests catastrophically harmed because a couple of schmucks fired off a SAM.") Whether Russia is responsible under International law is unclear.
39How to end a riot? Get rid of the soldiered-up riot police.
39"The credibility of Italy's entire scientific community has been restored." Manslaughter charges against six of seven Italian scientists involved in the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake forecasts have been overturned on appeal, with the remaining charge downgraded.
39The people of Rudolf Hess's home town find a constructive way to deal with the annual Neo-Nazi march
39Cameron knows which sexual acts are bad and bans them from porn produced in the UK. IF THE WOMEN EJACULATE THEN THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON. (Cameron must not be a Monty Python fan. His list "blows away" the subject matter of one of their most popular -- and one of their most NSFW -- short songs.)
39"Are we entering a new Cold War?" Well, the Russian economy is imploding and the US is about to lift a little-known embargo... Update: And one of the most counter-intuitve foreign policy initiatives of all time has ended. US to re-establish full relations with Cuba after 50 years.
39John Boehner: "All right, we have control of both chambers of Congress. Now we can't just give everything away to the Democrats now. Avoid any controversies. Rule #1: Don't hang out with neo-Nazis. That should be easy... Right?"
39New Jersey Judge: Gay Conversion Therapy Claims Are Fraud
39The Arkansas state house and senate votes to enact a sharia-style law that would prohibit cities and counties from enacting local LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws. All in the name of pro-business uniformity, of course.
39Definitely the worst thing you will read today: Parents try to reverse kids’ autism by ‘flushing out’ vaccines with Miracle Mineral Supplement bleach enemas.
39(German) As measles break out in Berlin, too, the German consumer's magazine 'Stiftung Warentest' warns of measles and calls for immunization. What follows is a bullshit storm by anti-vaxxers. The magazine reacts by refuting every factual claim with science and by debunking any imputation in a most enjoyable way.
38Oregon votes to remove legal defense of "we wuz doin' faith healin'" if you happen to have killed your children by not letting the doctors help with their fatal condition.
38Donald Trump has been asking over and over again about Obama's birth certificate and released his own... only for it to turn out not to be a valid birth certificate! RationalWiki asks: what is Trump hiding? UPDATE: Trump finally releases the right thing.
38Gabrielle Giffords returned to Congress to vote on the debt ceiling limit.
38Fucking hippies <3
3853% of Americans overall support gay marriage. And 59% of African-Americans do. Wasn't Obama's stance on gay marriage supposed to alienate those anti-gay rights black voters....?
38Paul Ryan applied for stimulus funds in 2009, despite calling it a "wasteful spending spree."
38Minnesota voters defeat a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage, making Minnesota "the first state in our country that has faced this question and said 'no'." (Except for Arizona, of course, well... not anymore since 2008)
38"Gay conversion therapy" is being taken to court in New Jersey under the state’s Consumer Fraud Act.
38It's official. Fox News is too liberal for the Tea Party.
38Muslim taxi driver is assaulted and called a terrorist in his own cab. The reality? He's an Iraq vet. Naturally, the assailant's a chickenhawk to boot.
38Delaware becomes the eleventh U.S. state to legalize same sex marriage.
38A 22-year old gay man in Russia comes out to his friends, who then murder him for being gay and are congratulated in the Russian blogosphere. Later, more than 30 gay rights activists hold a protest in Moscow...and are subsequently assaulted by Russian Orthoox Christians and arrested.
38In Virginia, you can't take something that may be used as a weapon (such as little flags on wooden sticks) in to the State Capitol. However, actual weapons, like guns, are fine.
38Rich CEO Tells 'Daily Show' The 'Mentally Retarded' Are Maybe Worth $2 An Hour
38Georgia to join the Anti-Gay Bill club with a proposal dubbed the Preservation of Religious Freedom Act that would allow business owners who believe homosexuality is a sin to openly discriminate against gay Americans by denying them employment or banning them from restaurants and hotels. This bill would also give any individual and for-profit company the right to ignore Georgia laws—including anti-discrimination and civil rights laws—that "indirectly constrain" exercise of religion.
38Jason Priest is a Pro-life, Tea Party state senator in Montana. He allegedly threw his 4 year old daughter 8 feet so she landed on her head and the child had injuries consistent with this. A police officer witnessed other serious assaults, "his commitment to “protecting” the unborn is apparently not matched by an equal commitment to protect children who have been born."
38Homeopathic manufacturer recalls product because it might contain real medicine.
38700 scientists from 16 nations used the LHC to observe the beauty quark. They ended up confirming the existence of an exotic hadron that does not fit the standard quark model to 13.9 sigma. At 13.9, winning the lottery five times in one day is more probable than error. (arXiv paper)
38 After a vote for a college president is postponed due to allegations of sexual harassment, MRAs make it a pet cause and offer advice on how to rape drunk women.
38Corporate personhood, meet religious fundamentalism. America is the place for you. Update: The caveat, as predicted: The conservative majority seems to have inserted "get the government to fund it" as a safety valve. (Let's see if it works, because the Scientologists are coming anyway.)
38One for the Haggard's Law book: Anti-gay North Carolina senator worked as a drag queen in a gay bar.
38"Bible Belt leads the nation in consumption of gay porn." The joke writes itself.
38Atheist Airman rejected for reenlistment because he won't swear "so help me god" oath.
38Republicans have long hindered the Pentagon from taking the effects of climate change into account for their strategic evaluations. The Pentagon is now going to do it anyway. “‘There is a lot you can do to mitigate risk and lower the cost of risks if you acknowledge the risk exists,’ the officials said.”
381999: gamers demand we stop blaming school shootings on videogames. 2014: gaters threaten a school shooting because videogames. Sarkeesian canceled her speech because “state law prevented the university from keeping people with a legal concealed firearm permit from entering the event” even after the threat of a massacre. Less gun control means freedom!
38Former Reparative therapy leader John Smid marries same-sex partner
38Raw milk company defends product after 3yo's death ... a few weeks after sharing a Facebook image mocking safety concerns about raw milk.
38Map of literally every goat in the United States
38Mike Huckabee questions Obama's parenting skills for letting his daughters listen to Beyoncé. Of course, Huckabee's kid had hung a stray dog, slit its throat and stoned it to death.
38Prospective presidential candidate Ted Cruz introduces a bill to strip federal recognition of same-sex marriages. Meanwhile, in Florida, a lawmaker says people are not forced to use the bathroom and that trans people "choose to go to the restroom." What a time to be alive.
38Ron Paul: "Black Caucus only against war because they want that money for food stamps."
38Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney won the 2007 Oscar for his film about how America became very un-American after 9/11. But the obstacles he faced making that film in the waning years of Bush-Cheney were nothing compared to what he dealt with while making his new Scientology doc, Going Clear. Every single TV news network he contacted (and offered to pay) for news footage about Scientology refused to provide any, fearing endless litigation.
37Did I say May 21st? My bad. I meant October 21st.
37The incredibly difficult and traumatic experience of explaining their gay uncle to my children.
37They've (probably) found the Higgs.
37Einstein's real thoughts on God and the Bible, now available on eBay for $3m.
37Sheriff Joe Arpaio hired a convicted child-sex criminal for armed school "posse" that schools didn't ask for. And said he didn't care when it was pointed put to him. And also hired Steven Seagal to provide weapons training for the "posse". Remember, only ten links ago, the Tea Party was trying to block, possibly with some force, a recall petition against Boss Hogg.
37Religious affiliation in the United States is at its lowest point since University of California sociologists began tracking American religiosity in the 1930s.
37Police threaten woman with eviction for "too many" domestic violence reports.
37Measles cases in the United States have hit triple the annual average. 90% of cases are among the unvaccinated. Thanks Jenny and Andrew!
37Neo-Nazis arrested for trying to take over a small North Dakota town.
37Utah is ending homelessness by giving away homes. Woot!
37Jackie Chan says the Chinese should stop using traditional Chinese remedies, particularly ones made from endangered animals.
37Tennessee's Governor signs into law what can only be described as a pretty fucked-up take on religious freedom.
37The Satanic Temple's plan for an accompaniment to the Oklahoma Statehouse's Ten Commandments statue is moving right along. Long live the goat!
37There is a campaign to free a Missouri man from rotting in prison over 20 years for Marihuana offenses. 21 similar cases exist nationwide.
37About that minefield Ginsberg warned about in her Burwell v. Hobby Lobby dissent... The Satanic Temple is seeking a faith exemption from state abortion "counselling" laws.
37We're gonna miss you in 2016, Rick. (It's effectively Perry pulling a Cuomo, this time with a drunk-as-skunk DA. Interesting stuff.)
37Video of now-suspended St. Louis County police officer telling attendees of an Oath Keepers meeting that (a) victims of domestic violence should save the cops time and commit murder/suicide; and (b) his faith in Jesus makes him a killer who has no qualms about it because "God did not raise me to be a coward."
379-Year Old Girl Learns to Fire Fully Automatic Uzi at Arizona Shooting Range. What could possibly go wrong?
37Ohio considers a law that will "prohibit political or religious interpretation of scientific facts in favor of another". Think it might be about Global Climate Change and Intelligent Design...? Said law will also de-emphasize teaching of the "scientific process".
37For once, "stand your ground" doesn't help a killer escape justice in Florida.
37A company called "Giant Microbes" has been selling plush versions of various micro-organisms for years. Now that Ebola's about to affect white folk, CNBC accuses them of "the least tasteful advertising campaign in the history of marketing." Because they happen to be sold out of cuddly Ebola viruses.
37Philae touches down. Photos of the comet's surface have emerged. Also alien conspiracy theries have emerged.
37NRA claim: If more people had the right to carry guns in public, violent crime rates would drop. Stanford University study: Nope.
37Catholic Church: Having to defend against discrimination claims is a violation of our religious freedom.
37British High Court overrules Jehovah's Witnesses' objections to blood transfusion for son
37Chemical weapon attack on furry convention. A jar of chlorine powder was used, indicating a very unsophisticated attacker. 19 hospitalized, 18 now released, none dead, thankfully. Additionally, as reality has a sense of morbid irony, a nearby dog show took con-goers in for shelter.
37Antivax parents spread disease through Disneyland
37Miami cops are using the mugshots of black teenagers for target practice. And yes, they defend it.
37ahahahaha... hahahahah... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... (Warning: Contains Sarah Palin.)
37Irony alert: World's top celibate tells childfree couples that remaining childless makes them "selfish" and "greedy".
37Schadenfreude department: Fresh after tearing Brian Williams a new one, including invoking the Founding Fathers and insisting "the press must be honest," Bill O'Reilly's been caught lying about his own "war correspondent" credentials.
37Fitness gym sides with transgender customer after a complaint is lodged against the use of her preferred washroom.
37FDA announces public hearing on regulation of homeopathy, Center for Inquiry invited to testify.
37"Being an atheist isn't bad for your mental health, new study says"
36For the first time in history, a rich guy got killed in a home invasion and Republicans didn't assume a black man was responsible.
36WBC gets trolled: A comedian makes a $50,000 donation to a gay charity in their name.
36Just another rational day in the Middle East. Jerusalem rabbis 'condemn dog to death by stoning' for being the "reincarnation of a deceased secular lawyer who had insulted religious judges". Update: Jerusalem court denies dog condemned to stoning
36What a day: Kim Jong-il is dead. Update: The horror of the cult of personality in full display.
36Whoa, Libya, when we asked for secular values in the Middle East, we didn't mean making the GOP look like a fucking jihadist group. Update: The Muslim Brotherhood's response - "We are a nationalist party and Islam is our religion. This law is unacceptable and only suits liberals." Problem bro?
36Any Stephen King fans out there?
36Teabaggers call for armed revolution if Obama wins again. So much for democracy.
36Female Michigan House representatives disagree with invasive anti-abortion bill. They are subsequently forbidden to speak at all. Democracy in action, no women allowed.
36CNN's Soledad O'Brien: Paul Ryan is talking out of his ass. Romney advisor: WAAAHHH
36And you wonder why Marxism became a political force.
36The Lenski papers are published. ArsTechnica provides commentary.
36The NY Times headline reads: "Romney Blames Obama for His Campaign Challenges". There is nothing I could possibly add which would make that more hilarious.
36Pew survey: The "Nones" are still on the rise in the US
36Another family values candidate in hot water: Tea Party-backed pro-life congressman Scott DesJarlais pressured his mistress to get an abortion.
36So much for engaging with the peasants, Ryan.
36Karl Rove is still in the denial stage of grieving the election. Obama won by voter suppression, apparently. Yes, of course, he offers zero evidence to his claims.
36Oklahoma lawmaker violates the First Amendment and erects a Ten Commandments monument on state capitol grounds, complete with spelling errors.[No, not The Onion]
36The hits just keep coming - Republican poll worker caught complaining about the high turnout amongst "people of color."
36CNN/ORC Poll: A majority of Americans now think the Republican Party is too extreme.
36Among other obstinate acts of waste and stubbornness, the 112th Congress voted to repeal Obamacare 33 times — a waste of 88 hours of deliberation and $50 million, even though they knew there was no chance that it would pass the Senate or be signed into law by President Obama. And now, thanks to Michele Bachmann the 113th Congress is off to the races yet again.
36GPS took you and your friends to the wrong house after dark? That's a shooting.
36Paul LePage, the Republican Governor of Maine, believes that windmill generators are actually "powered" with electricity when no wind is blowing to convince people clean energy works.
36"Were you there?" is the correct answer to this school test's question, "The next time someone says the Earth is billions of years old, what can you say?"
36Out of the closet, onto the hard court. UPDATE: A Breitbart editor does his best to launch the blowback on behalf of the right-wing noise machine. UPDATE 2: ESPN's Chris Broussard doubles down: "I would not characterize [Collins] as a Christian." UPDATE 3: The parents of Matthew Shepard feel honored that Collins chose his uniform number (98) to memorialize their son's 1998 murder.
36So far this year, toddlers (with guns) killed more Americans than terrorists did.
36To protest Russia's anti-gay laws, Wentworth Miller comes out of the closet.
36First came "pray away the gay." Then about 18 months ago, a Cleveland shock-jock told a listener who had seen his daughter kissing another girl that he should pay some of his male friends to rape away her gay. Now in Iowa, "rape away the gay" may actually have been used successfully as a defense for a 31-year-old youth pastor who raped at least A DOZEN BOYS! His reasoning: it would "'help with homosexual urges by praying while he had sexual contact with (them)' in order to keep them 'sexually pure' for God. He then allegedly told police that 'when they would ejaculate, they would be getting rid of the evil thoughts in their mind.'" The judge has suspended his sentence in favor of counseling and five years probation.
36UK High Court to antivax mother: Your daughters will be given the MMR vaccine.
36Texas' new anti-abortion law — which will reduce to about 20 the number of abortion clinics in a state of 26 million people — has necessitated the planned establishment of shuttle buses to take women to the clinics. One anti-abortion group is suggesting to its followers that they volunteer to be shuttle drivers so they can kidnap the women and take them to church instead. Upon being confronted about this, the group denies supporting that idea. (Wonder where they got that idea from?)
36David Cameron's plan to protect the nation's children from internet porn rustle up votes from hard-of-thinking family values types will also help protect young people from sexual health sites, rape and sexual health support sites, and domestic abuse services.
36After three years with zero cases, India is on track to be declared Polio-free by the WHO next month!
36Vladimir Putin says he doesn't care about a person's sexual orientation, that he's on friendly terms with "some people who are gay", and that millions of Russians enjoy the music of Elton John, "despite his orientation".
36Glenn Beck: "I played a role in helping tear the country apart." No shit, Sherlock.
36On the subject of guns and Americans... so far there's been 7 school shootings during the first 14 days of the school year, and some gunman just killed 3 people at a Maryland mall.
36In its story on a drug patent squabble, Bloomberg Businessweek buried the lede with this quote at the bottom by Marijn Dekkers, Bayer CEO and professional asshole: "We did not develop this medicine for Indians, we developed it for western patients who can afford it."
36*Cue Tchaikovsky* Mt. Gox has flatlined. Estimated Bitcoin losses: $350 million. ("Converting your life savings to a currency less dependable than Linden dollars? Are you a lunatic?") Update: Potentially $400 million. The largest cybertheft of all time.
36Haggard's Law of Internet Porn Filters: Patrick Rock, senior Tory involved in Internet porn filter plan, arrested on ... child porn charges.
36SC state senate crushes little girl's hopes and dreams.
36Glenn Beck's chickens are coming home to roost.
36Bitcoin, our modern-day sandbox/universe-in-a-jar of libertarian economics, finally experiences the paradox of unregulated, "free" markets. ("The knee-jerk reaction from the Bitcoin lunatic fringe will be to try to minimize the issue... It's time for a hard fork.") Update: Bitcoin's "chief scientist": If we're all going to eventually get fucked by this, you know, shit happens. *shrugs*
36"An unidentified spokesman for North Korea's Foreign Ministry said in state media that if the U.S. government doesn't block the release of The Interview (a comedy about a plot to assassinate leader Kim Jong-un, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco), it would be considered an 'act of war.'" [No, not The Onion]
36Does anyone need a reminder that mercenaries are a bad idea? Mercenaries are a bad idea.
36Capital punishment struck down in California
36Uh-oh. Damn scientists have been proving evolution again.
36Cops gun down Ohio man holding toy rifle in Walmart ‘like he was not even human’. (Bonus comment: "Second amendment patriotism if you're white with a REAL AR-15, execution on the spot if you're black with a pellet gun.")
36British parliament votes symbolically to recognise Palestine. Israel, of course, has a tantrum.
36Illinois General Assembly revives recording ban on cops by citizens, makes it a felony.
36No tax breaks for the Ark Park. Update: Here's the actual letter from Kentucky’s Tourism Secretary Bob Stewart to Ken Ham. It's a thing of beauty.
36Plop open some vials of penicillin and gulp it down in celebration! We need space for our new antibiotic, defeating all tested mutants of Staphylococcus aureus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis!
36Australian anti-vaxxers are encouraging parents to join a fake church to avoid vaccination requirements for daycares
36Mitt Romney will not run in 2016.
36China tells the Dalai Lama that he will reincarnate, and on their terms too.
36Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises no Palestinian state if he is re-elected.
36A headline only America could generate: End-times-themed Christian band arrested, after fatal shoot-out with cops, outside Walmart.
36Anthony Ray Hinton is yet another African American victim of miscarriage of justice. Hinton was released after almost 30 years enduring the harsh conditions on Alabama's death row. Experts maintained for 12 years the guns Hinton was accused of using did not match evidence in the murder cases but authorities chose to ignore this.
35What Happened When I Yelled Back at the "Christians" Calling My Wife a Murderer. "These people aren't used to being confronted. They prey on the weak and they pounce on the wounded. But I chose to fight back."
35Fox passes off an Onion article on Obama as the real thing. Hilarity ensues. Also noteworthy is the fact that instead of admitting to their gaffe, Fox simply memory holed the article and it's related comments.
35Ann Coulter's stupidity shocks even Bill O'Reilly while speaking on his show. She claims that "scientists consensus" has changed about radiation, it's healthy for you. O'Reilly even started mocking her to her face by stating "So by your account we should all be heading towards the nuclear reactor".
35A video from the You Can't Make This Shit Up department: Steve Douchey Doocy and another Fox News flak compare News Corp's role in the hacking scandal to corporate and government victims of hacking. Then, as if that wasn't precious enough, Da Douche brings up China's role in hacking the Pentagon's computers. Then, he trots out this little gem: "We are teetering on default, and what do they do? They talk about this!" Update: Taking the moral high ground...Larry Flynt?
35Anoka, Minnesota has launched a fundie-led war on gay teens, resulting in nine suicides in two years and a civil-rights lawsuit has been filed against the school district.
35A few weeks ago, several Ohio coal miners claim that their employer forced them to give up a day's work (and with it, a day's pay) to attend a Romney rally. The coal company's response: "Our managers communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend." What a surprise: Bob Murray, the CEO of the company (which was fined millions of dollars for failing to meet safety standards that resulted in a 2007 mine collapse, killing eight people) is also a climate change denialist.
35Luckiest bastard on the planet.
35Puerto Rico has voted to become the 51st State.
35Willard Mitt Romney. You got no votes. Not a sausage. Bugger all.
35Marco Rubio: "whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries"
35Never mind the absurd rates of teenage pregnancy and KKK membership, the GOP lawmakers in Tennessee are busy with having another shot at passing the "Don't Say Gay" bill, and this time, teachers have to inform parents if Johnny uses too much glitter in arts and crafts class.
35Suddenly the Tunguska event isn't such a mystery any more. Update: The Guardian has more videos of breaking glass and swearing Russians. Cue conspiracy theories in 4...3...2...1... (The first one to connect it to 2012 DA14[wp] gets a shiny new tinfoil hat!)
35Vatican "accidentally" invests 23 million euros in a ... HUGE GAY SAUNA.
35Five (FIVE!) year old, given gun as gift, shoots and kills 2 year old sister.
35Transgender marriage allowed in Hong Kong. [4]
35Good riddance, expected in 2014.
35A freeman on the land seizes his landlady's property and declares it an embassy.
35If you're white or look white you can shoot a black kid dead and claim self defense, if a black kid is wearing a hoodie that's enough to make him dangerous. If you're black and shoot into a wall without injuring anyone you risk 20 years in prison despite your partner's known violent past.
35Michele Bachmann gets as close as you'd want an elected official to get to actually speaking in tongues while commenting on government policy. (Bonus round: check out John McCain being the voice of reason at the end of the article.)
35A Florida fifth-grader who won first place for a speech about the history of people who use religion to justify murder is stripped of the prize by an assistant principal who deemed it inappropriate for fourth and fifth graders.
35The International Olympic Committee embarrasses itself even further. (Avery Brundage would be proud.)
35Kevin Trudeau goes to prison. Says he's very apologetic.
35Affluenza may be becoming a pandemic
35Tennessee state senator Stacey Campfield compares signing up for Obamacare to Nazi ‘train rides for Jews’
35Another of the Phelps cult has flown the coop.
35Conspiracy theorist stoops to new low - telling the mother of a Sandy hook victim that her daughter never existed.
35Republicans vote to prevent the Pentagon from using funding to address the national security impacts of climate change.
35Fox News rips off BioShock Infinite logo, irony ensues
35Hobby Lobby : "We refuse to give you birth control, but and you're fired if you dare to have God gives you a baby"
35Senator James Inhofe (R-Exxon-Mobil) gets told off by a colleague about his Global warming denial.
35Hooray for the first woman to get a Fields medal!
35Republican Senator from Georgia complains about excessive black voting, stating his preference for "educated voters".
35Much bigger news than you would expect: The Rockefellers (who, lest we forget, built their fortune in the oil industry) start saying goodbye to fossil fuel, divesting from coal and the Alberta tar sands.
35Pope Francis supports a much greater level of acceptance of homosexuals. Or not … The Spectator criticises an unreadable doccument with mixed mesages and suggests angry disagreement within the Synod. Mixed messages may be intentional to keep both sides happy. There is no change of official policy but big change may (or may not) happen decades from now. Conservative Cardinal Raymond Burke recently demoted and other conservatives have stated the document is not Church teaching Denunciations by conservative Catholic leaders must mean that the Synod is doing something right! Conservatives watered down the final policy statement but confusingly the unwatered down statement will be published. A major schism is a remote possibility.
3553% of Likely U.S. Voters think it is fair to say that neither party in Congress is the party of the American people.
35You know that freedom of religion thing? It cuts both ways.
35Trans teen Leelah Alcorn, whose parents refused to support their daughter, committed suicide this morning. In her suicide note she begged people to try to work for a better world for trans people.
35Another stupendous victory for Gamergate! Intel announces a $300 million diversity initiative, directly inspired by Gamergate fooling them into pulling an ad campaign. And Anita Sarkeesian and Feminist Frequency are directly involved. (Gamergate are evidently deep cover cultural Marxists.)
35Tennessee woman freaks out over "pentagram" on school bus. Not sure what's dumber, her reaction or that this gets reported as news. Even other Southerners mock her.
35Being LGBTQ apparently gives an unfair advantage in video games.
35Lebanese female TV presenter tells Islamic scholar where to put it.
35Indiana convicts a woman for the murder of her own fetus. 38 states have fetal murder laws. Prosecuters use a discredited technique to convict her of murder. The technique is from the seventeenth century and has been used in other cases with serious risk of miscarriage of justice.
34Pat Robertson:The earthquake is Haiti's own fault, they made a pact with the Devil when they were trying to get loose of Napoleon III, who came to power over 40 years after Haitian independence. Oh, and don't ask Rush Limbaugh to donate - He already gave.
34First atheist to run for Federal office in the USA for 10 years.
34The pope compares extremist atheists to Nazis. No, really.
34Same shit, different country. Sometimes I just hate humanity.
34Seismologists charged with manslaughter for failing to predict earthquake.
34You want a new Climategate? How about the leaked strategy documents from the Heartland Institute detailing the concerted attack on science and reality? And, of course, spot the donor. And the beneficiary.
34Well, Rush, you really are sensitive to these things, aren't you? It's not like we need to get President Obama to offer support or anything.
34U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals rules DOMA unconstitutionally denies federal benefits to married same-sex couples.
34Stop me if you've heard this one before: an(other) anti-gay evangelist turns out to be gay.
34Idaho Republican wonders if women even know what rape is. Also not The Onion.
34Todd Akin again, this time on something else of which he's an expert: "There's no science behind evolution."
34Dinesh D'Souza, who speaks vocally against Obama, feminism, and same-sex marriage displays an interesting interpretation on the sanctity of marriage. UPDATE: D'Souza steps down from the presidency of The King's College.
3412 dead in Connecticut primary school shooting. It never ends. UPDATE: 27, nearly double Columbine. Update II: Mother's guns, legally bought.
34Still making feigning credibility into an art form: intelligent design think tank's “institute” is a Shutterstock image.
34The Tea Party demonstrates how classy it is by making a fake Hillary Clinton bestiality video.
34Don't ya luv 'em: “I didn’t know the legacy of the Republican Party included women correcting men in public.” (also: ...African-Americans “should be allowed to vote in Africa,” of course.)
34The dominoes continue to fall. Philadelphia's mayor just signed into law the most expansive LGBT rights and benefits program in the country. Nevada is (slowly) heading towards overturning and completely reversing its ban on same-sex marriage.Illinois' governor is pushing the state House to give him the damn bill to sign already. Meanwhile, the emoting turns up to eleven from someone on the wrong side of history in Minnesota.
34WTF, Obama Administration?!?! In 2009, FFRF chief Annie Laurie Gaylor filed a federal lawsuit against the "parsonage exemption" that allows ministers to claim part of their salaries as a tax exempt housing allowance. The Justice Department has now countered by declaring that since Buddhism and Taoism are godless religions, then atheism is also a godless religion, the FFRF is basically a church, and Gaylor is a minister. For tax purposes, that is.
34OMFG How dare you use actual science in a debate about fluoride! Stop it at once!!
34Vaccine-denying megachurch is epicentre of Texas measles outbreak.
34Everyone point and laugh at all of Europe's pig-ignorant racists (and the news media who pushed this manufactroversy to a climax): The mother of Greece's 'blond angel' is a Bulgarian Roma.
34Texas judge blocks new abortion restrictions.
34Texas: Where you can get pardoned after killing four people because of "affluenza." No, really. No, really.
34So, it turns out that there actually is a large conspiracy around climate change: Up to a billion dollars a year spent to fight and fuel the war against climate science.
34Jan Batshit finally vetoes Jim Crow in Arizona after humongous pressure from the business community. With two states now humiliated (and more coming up next) we have to ask this: is the GOP full of deep cover liberals? Or just complete heterosexuals?
34Sterling banned for life from the NBA. Cue people not knowing the difference between Congress and businesses.
34 And the latest moral panic is...Slenderman.
34No, seriously. At what point are mass shootings no longer to be considered "news", but merely every day events like car crashes?
34In a unanimous ruling, the US Supreme Court prohibits warrantless searches of cellphones.
34Rick Santorum predicted it. The CEO of a Missouri Baptist conference center tries to make it come true.
34Texas State Supreme Court to homeschooling fundies: You still have to educate your kids even if you think the rapture is imminent.
34Official New Zealand Govt assessment:"No health risk from Fluoride". Anti-fluoride wackos started making excuses a while ago.
34Of all the countries to ask for asylum, North Korea is a pretty shitty choice.
34Greenpeace may have unintentionally damaged the Nazca site in Peru; later apologises.
34Netanyahu is disqualified from running for Likud party leadership for alleged misuse of party funds; Netanyahu will appeal. Simultaneously, but without any connection apparent by now, Israel police reveal a huge political corruption investigation: About 30 political figures are said to be involved in nepotism and transfer of funds. The parliamental elections on 2015-03-17 are about to get exciting.
34At age 86, James Randi finally retires from the James Randi Educational Foundation.
34Croatia cancels debts for its poorest citizens.
34Islamophobic bus ads defaced with pictures of Muslim superhero.
34Ethics in journalism strikes again, where you'd least expect it. Mass resignations at the Tea Party News Network over its descent from ideology into clickbait.
34Rest in peace, Ahmed Rajib Haider. An American atheist blogger has been murdered in Bangladesh, after a long series of threatening messages.
34And not to be outdone, Christian doctors in Ontario are fighting for the right to refuse treatment, on religious grounds.
34Rand Paul throws hissy fit when questioned by a journalist, for the third time in a week.
33Meanwhile, in Bizarro world, the Rand Paul supporter who stomped on a MoveOn supporter wants her to apologize to him.
33Even George W. Bush thinks Sarah Palin is unqualified for public office.
33After the Giffords shooting, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told the press that Arizona "has become a mecca for prejudice and bigotry." Senator John Kyl called Dupnik's remarks "inappropriate." A local conservative talk radio host has called for Dupnik's resignation. (Dupnik has been sheriff since 1980.) Now, the leader of one of the largest Tea Party groups claims Dupnik is a leftist trying to deflect attention from the shooter -- who they claim is really a leftist that was targeting a centrist Democrat. And all of this is just further proof of the vitriol in American politics.
33Ron Paul again states he would have voted against the civil rights act. When asked about the racism present at that time Ron states that it's ancient history, with the irony being that it's ancient history because of the civil rights act.
33Women to be allowed to vote in Saudi Arabia. Good grief, we'll be letting them drive next!
33In Lexington, Kentucky, two lesbians are barred from their school prom, so the students hold a better one in the car park.
33Fucking Gohmert had to go there.
33 Mississippi reminds black people that Jeebus only loves Christians when they're white.
33"Science requires faith because you can't see atoms!" Oh yeah?
33"'Space,' it says, 'is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.'"
33Oh, for fuck's sake...
33This WIGO ought to be the last time you hear the words "Todd Akin." And "Allen West."
33Voters boot out another rape denialist - Richard Mourdock can crawl back under his rock now. Ditto Josh Mandel.
33Conservative bloggers: "Black youth are planning riots in case Obama loses!" Police: "That's nonsense." Real life: White UMiss students start a riot because Obama won.
33Piers Morgan advocates gun control and calls a gun advocate "stupid" to his face: 31,000 Americans then show their favour for the Second Amendment over the First, by petitioning to have the British expatriate deported Update: We, the British people, petition & beg the Obama Administration to NOT send British Citizen Piers Morgan back to Britain. Damn, deleted already!
33Anti-gay; Pro-child porn.
33What the fuck, The Atlantic? Bonus: CoS was given moderator control over comment threads. The Atlantic then pulls it down with the message "We have temporarily suspended this advertising campaign pending a review of our policies that govern sponsor content and subsequent comment threads." Tony Ortega has a more detailed timeline with commentary. Update: The Onion's got the scoop.
33"No good deed goes unpublished." Kindly older man who helped children after Sandy Hook massacre is being harassed by Newtown "truthers".
33From the Planck satellite: Big Bang theory reinforced, more matter and less energy than we thought there was, and the Hubble constant gets a recalculation. Also a trippy CMB map in the mix.
33RationalWiki thrilled as North Carolina seeks to declare an "official state religion", because mocking Texas gets boring after a while.
33Jenny, it's all a conspiracy against you!
33Stephen Hawking is boycotting the Presidential Conference in Jerusalem due to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
33Occasionally, a multi-billion dollar industry like big pharma will try to do something so obviously morally indefensible that even the Roberts Court can find unanimity against them. I.e.,human genes cannot be patented.
33In other news, Iran had an election, wherein the least conservative candidate won!
33Exodus International is no more. Same with DOMA. And unless a California elects right-wingers to restart the cause, so is Prop 8. Seeing a vacuum, the FRC has decided to inaugurate (the completely unofficial) "Ex-Gay Pride Month" and have decided to launch not one but two reparative therapy/ex-gay "rights" organizations that warrant scrutiny -- Equality and Justice For All (?????) and Voice of the Voiceless (!!!!!). Regarding that last one, didn't Paul Ryanmake a similar mistake less than a year ago?
33Florida legislature and governor make their entry into this year's "LOL! We Don't Read The Bills We Vote On, Either! So Whatcha Gonna Do About It?" sweepstakes. A new state law aimed at banning internet cafes is so badly written thatit actually bans the use of all computers and smart phones within the state.
33Your daily dose of GOP insanity: a former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party calls for transgender people to be placed in concentration camps.
33Wanna-be ghost-hunters get frustrated, burn down historic Louisiana plantation house.
33The Indian Mars Orbiter Mission[wp] successfuly leaves Earth orbit despite a previous setback. If it succeeds, India will be the fourth space power to reach Mars, after the USSR, the US and ESA. Good luck!
3361 years after his death, Alan Turing finally gets pardoned. (Well, even that's just sort of.)
33Right-wing nutter arrested for planning a bombing campaign "to restore America Pre-Constitutionally and look forward to stopping the Regime with action by bloodshed."
3338% of rape victims are men, survey finds
33Apple is being sued in a class-action lawsuit for holding text messages hostage when a user switches from Apple to another OS.
33RIP, Maya Angelou.
33Another example of the Catholic Church's attitude towards the sanctity of life. Could be the worst example of the Magdalene laundries thus far.
33Michigan State House GOP candidate: Ignore my arrests for public masturbation in other people’s cars. (Yes, he is the sole Republican candidate for the position.) WHERE DO THEY FIND THESE PEOPLE
33Cosmos has earned 12 Emmy nominations
33The UK government has decided to display its total ignorance of technology and/or reality and is recommending that online anonymity be abolished.
33Pennsylvanian teenager aged 14 simulates oral sex with Jesus statue. Then he faced the possibility of up to 2 years in prison for violating a little-known 1972 state law that prohibits actions "that the actor knows will outrage the sensibilities of persons likely to observe or discover the action." The prosecutor was in trouble for real adultery, possibly non consensual while the kid just messed with an inanimate statue. There have been protests over violation of the teen's First Amendment rights. The police failed to protect protestors including the boy and his mother, many were at risk of physical injury. The kid's been put on probation with multiple conditions including 350 Hours Community Service and not using social media for 6 months. The kid also had the threat of juvenile detention hanging over him for over a month which is a harsh punishment in itself. Let's hope that very long community service won't interfere with the kid's school work.
33Great Scott! Lockheed claims breakthrough in developing a nuclear fusion reactor. It says it would build and test a compact reactor in less than a year and a prototype in five years and produce an operational 100MW reactor in ten years which would be small enough to fit into the back of a truck.
33US woman faces bankruptcy after being taken to wrong hospital, whilst unconscious.
33Canadian family prays over corpse in home for six months in hopes of resurrection.
33Teacher fired by Roman Catholic school for having in vitro fertilization wins $2 million verdict but there will be an appeal.
33Receiving food stamps objectively boost academic performance and IQ in children compared to children living in poverty who don't receive assistance.
33Remember the First Nations girl who chose traditional medicine over conventional chemotherapy for her completely treatable leukemia back in October? Her health made a turn for the worse, and she has passed away following a stroke indicative of the cancer spreading to her brain. Her parents blame the chemotherapy.
33Think the GOP's anti-vax stance is bad? Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) says he’s okay with the idea of service industry workers returning to work without washing their hands after touching their unmentionables, as long as customers are made aware of the situation.
33If you're a microbiologist looking to identify some unknown DNA, you need look no further than the NYC subway system. "Almost half of the DNA found on the system’s surfaces did not match any known organism and just 0.2 percent matched the human genome."
33Alabama Supreme Court tries to drag state back out of 21st century, orders probate judges to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses. Let's see how long before they get overruled.
33Oklahoma House passes bill to prevent any non-clergy from providing marriage licenses.
33The Clown Car of Candidates, 2016 edition, is underway, as Ted Cruz officially throws his hat into the ring.
33A historic agreement is in the works with Iran including getting them to agree to step back their nuclear development plans in exchange for lifting lots of sanctions.
33Pope Francis calls Armenian WW1 killings 'genocide'. Now just wait for Turkey's officialdom to to go haywire.
33"None of it's true," says wellness blogger who claimed to have beaten cancer by changing her diet.
32Biggest military document leak in history: WikiLeaks, in concert with the New York Times, the Guardian and der Spiegel, releases 200,000 pages of classified documents on the clusterfuck that is the war in Afghanistan. That's twenty times the size of the Pentagon Papers, and much fresher.
32Two guys meet at "ex-gay therapy" group, fall in love, get married.
32Al-Qaeda admits that Osama Bin Laden is dead.
32In Minnesota, while debating a lovely measure to liberate the poor from liberal nanny-statism, a state senator suggests that state legislators try the measure personally before imposing it on the poor. She is greeted with stunned silence.
32Muslim shows Christian America how that "forgiveness" thing works.
32Gaddafi is reportedly dead - Now confirmed.
32Why worry about coal mining's massive environmental impacts to nearby communities when SOMEONE TOOK A PHOTO OF THEIR CHILD IN THE TUB!
32The European Parliament rejects ACTA with 478-39 votes.
32Educating our children is a slippery slope because... the Holocaust happened?
32Chik-Fil-A likes money more than it hates gays. Update: Whoops, busted raising money for anti-gay groups again.
32ABC still does good journalism.
32Update to WIGO about Hubbard and Fuqua in Arkansas: GOP pulls funding for those candidates, along with Loy Mauch who previously called Abraham Lincoln a war criminal and asserted (correctly) that "Jesus Christ did condone slavery".
32Ken Ham's Creation Museum reports its fourth consecutive year of declining attendances since opening AND AiG reports its first ever net loss.
32Seralini's infamous "GMO gives cancer to rats" study is definitively rejected by the European Food Safety Agency.
32 'I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I've been beating them up,'. Too bad Hindus, such as the Indian victim, had nothing to do with 9/11.NB:It's also not nice to push Muslims onto train tracks either.
32Colin Powell lays out what everyone with half a brain already knows - the GOP has a racist streak. He nicely details the loaded language of, among others Sarah Palin.
32From now on, girls shall be pretty and inoffensive when in school.
32One Two more souls saved from the Westboro Baptist Church.
32Add "democracy" to the list of things Teabaggers don't understand.
32Brooklyn judge declares birther "delusional", fines him $177K. In other news, Terry Hurlbut explodes.
32Rich 20-something in Mexico walks into a packed trendy cafe, is unable to get the exact table she wants. She has a tantrum and makes a phone call to her daddy. Daddy is the attorney general of consumer protection and has the place immediately shut down on bogus infractions. The Streisand effect kicked in, the story quickly went to Twitter, and you can guess the rest.
32Another State joins the 21st century: Minnesota Senate approves marriage equality; governor will sign.
32Who are you and what have you done with Sarah Palin? Update: And she bails out, blames the channel's editing.
32Chris Christie has signed a bill that bans licensed therapists from performing reparative therapy on minors, making New Jersey the second US state to do so, following California.
32How large a fruit basket should you send after accidentally beheading a guy from an allied militia and posting the video online due to a misunderstanding?
32In what undoubtedly will cause the Religious Right to go into a persecution complex circle-jerk marathon, the Satanic Temple reveals their design for their proposed monument on the Oklahoma state Capitol.
32York University student refuses to work with women citing religious reasons. Sparks human rights debate involving the teacher who intended to deny the student's request and the campus administration who forced the teacher to comply.
32Atheist Afghan granted religious asylum in UK
32U.S. District Judge Rules Oklahoma Ban on Marriage Equality Unconstitutional. The Bible Belt is slowly unbuckling.
32Good, Congressman, I can feel your anger. Throw me off the balcony with all your hatred and your journey towards the laughingstock will be complete!
32The GOP's latest dirty trick: Setting up fake websites, to con donations from Democrats.
32Proposed Missouri bill would force schools to inform parents when evolution is taught so they could opt their children out of those lessons.
32Astronomers and cosmologists are having a great month: A "surprise discovery" soon to be announced by the European Space Observatory. Update: Everyone, meet the newest members of our solar system... the an asteroid with rings and Joe Biden!
32Brendan Eich steps down from Mozilla.
32Frazier Glenn Miller, white supremacist and accused murderer, was once caught being "rather salacious" with a black male prostitute.
32The dominoes continue to fall. Pennsylvania judge John E. Jones III (recommended by Santorum!) declares gay marriage prohibition unconstitutional.
32The guy who shot up Las Vegas was a huge Alex Jones fan. (Bonus clog included: Jones is calling the incident a false flag staged by Harry Reid).
32The Supreme Court of Canuckistan does it again: Warrantless collection of customer data declared unconstitutional.
32The 15-year-old boy who engaged in a school shooting earlier this week was described by his church elder as "highly spiritual" and wrote about killing "sinners" in his diary.
32A satisfyingly low turnout for NOM's March For Marriage. (And Presbyterians vote to allow gay marriage.)
32Brazil 1 - Germany 7. "WELL DONE..BRAVO...LONG LIVE HITLER..." Oops! Does this finally put to bed "The boys from Brazil"??
32Guess who John McCain blames for the Ukrainian plane tragedy...
32Cop waves rifle at Ferguson protestors and threatens to kill them. Has been removed from duty.
32People now have one less excuse in case they are caught red-handed attacking/killing a gay person in California.
32Gay couple kicked off London bus for kissing. Why he'd spend his time looking at gays rather than driving is anyone's guess.
32Australian spy agency ASIO discovers it was spying on, er, itself.
32Death with dignity advocate, Brittany Maynard dies with dignity aged 29. Maynard suffered from cancer and became the latest spotlight in the right to die debate, surprise the Vatican and many social conservatives condemned the right to die.
32Meanwhile in Britain: A new study concludes that migrants pay more through tax than take through Welfare.
32Loathsome pick-up artist Julien Blanc thrown out of Australia.
32The results of the 2014 elections are in for science: everybody loses.
32Yet another black American youngster, this time 12 years old, shot dead because he carried a fake firearm (an AirSoft replica with the identifying orange marker removed) and didn't obey a police order to raise his hands. (Update: Police allege he was waving his gun in the air. A surveillance video of the incident exists, and will eventually be released to the public.)
32The Bible - so misunderstood it is a sin. Pull up the deck chairs, get a beer, let's watch the fun....right on time!
32Utah parents murder children, then commit suicide, because they feared a looming apocalypse.
32My parents acting out as a stranger danger
32Ted Cruz: 'Global Warming alarmists are the equivalent of the Flat-Earthers'.
32Tony Abbott's government goes into stopped clock mode and stops childcare payments for anti-vaccinators.
32Canada's long media nightmare ends with the quiet death of Fox News North
31Teabaggers: Whaaa! Our taxes are too high! Reality: Tax in America is at a 60-year low.
31It's official: Andrew Wakefield's so-called "study" linking the MMR vaccine to autism was "based not on bad science but on a deliberate fraud" that was "on the scale of Piltdown man, BMJ (neé British Medical Journal) editorial says." (as reported in The British Medical Journal)
31Dennis Kucinich asks Scott Walker, "How much money does the [Wisconsin collective bargaining] bill save?" Walker answers: "It doesn't save any."
31Single-payer health care plan becomes law in Vermont.
31Motorcyclist dies in an accident protesting helmet laws, from an injury he would have survived if he had been wearing a helmet.
31School bans book; library hands out free copies
31The Tea Party is now less popular than Muslims and atheists.
31Atlas Shrugged: "Ayn Rand's timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice," says the newly released DVD of the miserable film. Oops.
31The Truth About Religion in America: The Founders LOL'D at Superstition and We Were Never a Christian Nation
31Don't forget to renew your domain name.
31How deep is Paul Ryan's opposition to the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare? Less than nine months after it was signed into law, he went begging to the Obama administration to send some ACA funds to help build a new clinic in his district. That's how deep his opposition is to . . . Wait, what?
31"John McCain, if you think the President is lying on Benghazi, why didn't you show up at the classified briefing?" "WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH"
31The Wall Street Journal has a strange definition of "poor."
31The "Gay dog" saga descends deeper into a mini-statement about all that's wrong with the American right wing, as Bill Donohue describes its adoption as "reverse discrimination" against straights. These days, satire writes itself.
31Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers UPDATE: Tea Party and Faux News say, "Nuh-huh and they used tax-payer dollars for the research!" Grab the popcorn.
31Hilarity ensues as the chairwoman of the Yellowstone County, Montana Republican Party comes up with a totally original black man/watermelon combo.
31Water water everywhere and every drop to drink.
31Today in Harper's Canada: a motion, essentially affirming that accurate scientific research is useful in sound public policy making, was defeated in the House of Commons after every single Conservative MP voted it down. (to be fair, party solidarity means that it would be political suicide to vote against your party line)
31Anti-gay protesters in Paris attack the police and use their kids as human shields. You know, “pro-family.”
31land of the free
31Glenn Beck falls silent, because his vocal chords (sic) are paralyzed.
31Senators were invited to a classified briefing about the NSA's snooping.Most opted to go home for the weekend instead. This kind of thing is exactly how we got here in the first place, guys.
31A third of US-Americans believe that the First Amendment goes too far.
31In the "Awfully Kind-Hearted, But How is This Going to Work?" folder: Sweden will grant any Syrian refugee asylum.
31With all of the commotion, apparently we all forgot to make sure Alex Jones was fed before midnight on Tuesday.
31Yes, because a Jewish man who fought against the Nazis is "anti-British", Daily Mail? Do you want everyone to bring up your old skeletons? Update: How Marxist is this? Update #2: The Daily Mail city editor says the Mail deserves an apology, not Miliband.
31Quebec doctors warned that performing "virginity tests" is "outrageous, repugnant, irrelevant and unacceptable"
31Building contractor has dispute with local church. Local church has many members employed by the county government and district attorney's office. DA's office arrests and prosecutes contractor on trumped-up charges. No doubt because that's what Jesus would do.
31After three Republican uses since October to block the confirmation of an appeals court judge (and multiple other government appointees), Senate Democrats have grown some balls and opened a debate on should we curb the filibuster? Update: Dems pass a filibuster reform for appointees, requiring a simple majority now for most votes. Republicans are brain-dead livid.
31Shots fired: Pope Francis poops on the Prosperity Gospel.
31New Pew survey reveals one-third of Americans don't believe in evolution.
31List of dumb ways to end political careers: "Break into a political party's national headquarters while on your way to winning a landslide election." "Have sex with an aide in your official residence and lie about it under oath." "Shut down the world's busiest bridge because a nearby mayor didn't endorse you." (Full timeline) Update: "One of the things that most concerned Mitt Romney's staff about Christie in 2012 was that they were 'stunned by the garish controversies lurking in the shadows of his record.'" And now we know just the tip of the iceberg.
31"Michael Sam. He's here. He's queer. Get used to him sacking your quarterback."
31Putin's worst nightmare wasn't losing a hockey game, nor the gays.
31My question to the Editor of the Daily Mail: Why do you deliberately suck so fucking hard at even the simplest of things?Link is to The Guardian, so no advertising monies to the Daily Heil from this link. Hooray!!!!
31Conservative Iraq refugee who painted patriotic art gunned down for looking Muslim.
31Conservatives launch boycott of Mozilla after gays press CEO to quit
31Minnesota GOP nominee running for Congress because evolution made his daughter cry
31Rush Limbaugh blames Max Blumenthal for the recent anti-semitic Kansas shootings. , spiraling off into the deep end along the way. The Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest at the funerals and a counter protest is also planned.
31A new study published in PNAS has found that a minimum of 4.1% of people sentenced to death in the USA are wrongly convicted. Fuck the death penalty indeed.
31One of the world's worst-kept foreign policy secrets revealed: China is preparing for a potential toppling of Kim Jong-un.
31Texas GOP candidate Dan Patrick: It’s a ‘myth’ that Planned Parenthood does ‘anything’ for women’s health.
31 Bearded Austrian drag queen Conchita Wurst wins Eurovision Song Contest. Russia shits itself.
31Meet Asa Hutchinson, Republican candidate for the governor of Arkansas. He supports voter ID laws meant to make sure poor people are not allowed to vote. Hutchinson went to vote, only to find he forgot his ID at home, and was not allowed to vote, until he sent a staffer to get his ID for him.
31While we're on the subject of guns, a sovereign citizen tries to take over a Georgia courthouse, doesn't get very far.
31The conservative-approved method for reducing the number of school shootings: redefine what a "school shooting" is!
31In Nigeria you can get committed to a mental institution for being an atheist
31Haggard's Law strikes again.
31What part in "Do not plagiarize under any fucking circumstances" don't you understand?
31Iranian atheist faces deportation back to Iran where he could be killed for opposing Islam.
31Glenn Beck admits he has a 'mysterious brain illness'. Any jokes would be tasteless. And redundant.
31Judge to sovereign citizen: No, you cannot just mint your own silver "liberty dollars." (47-page judgement, a masterpiece of judicial literature.)
31Update on Ferguson: A Grand Jury isn't going to indict officer Darren Wilson over the death of Michael Brown. America.
31“With prosecutors like this, Darren Wilson never needed a defense lawyer.” She gave to the Grand Jury a 1979 state law which was ruled unconstitutional in 1985. This unconstitutional law allowed police to shoot fleeing suspects just for fleeing.
31In a perfect example of the Streisand Effect, staff member of the United States Senate tries to remove reference to torture in the Wikipedia article of the CIA torture report.
31One of the boys who claimed to have visited and returned from Heaven recants his tale.
31Liam Neeson criticizes America's gun culture during a press tour. No points for guessing what happened next.
31Texas, where teachers are allowed to shoot students.
31Scientists may be on to the first stages of a general anti-viral medication.(original paper)
31Andrew Wakefield continues to make a career out of martyrdom and quackery, this time as an "expert witness" to the Oregon legislature.
31"If I can take on 100,000 protestors, I can do the same across the globe." The Web mocks Scott Walker's insanely dumb comment.
31In a surprise to pretty much everybody living here, Nebraska's Gay Marriage ban is ruled unconstitutional.
31Bill Nye fixes his inverse stopped clock, renouncing his anti-GMO views.
31Nigel Farage has been called to the field of honor.
30Woohoo! Partying like it's 1310, Ireland makes blasphemy a crime.
3077% of Britons say that the government should not fund the Pope's visit. Surprise: Catholic Archbishop begs to differ.
30Christine O'Donnell, Teabagger favourite and failed Senatorial candidate, now under federal investigation for misuse of campaign funds. Still, I suppose she could always magic up a spell to make it all go away.
30Republican plan to ensure aristocracy part II, make it harder for those who disagree with you to vote.
30House Republicans vote that Earth is not warming. Since when is science a democracy?
30Millionaires write Obama, Congress asking that their taxes be raised. "We all give to charity, but that's not the same as creating a more equitable society."
30A Delta Air Lines pilot creates his own personal no-fly list because he doesn't like people wearing "traditional Indian clothing" or "Arab garb". UPDATE To double-down on the irony, the pair were on their way to a conference that intended to discuss prejudice against Muslims.
30Five minutes before the talk was due to start a man burst into the room holding a camera phone and for some seconds stood filming the faces of all those in the room. He shouted "listen up all of you, I am recording this, I have your faces on film now, and I know where some of you live", at that moment he aggressively pushed the phone in someone's face and then said "and if I hear that anything is said against the holy Prophet Mohammed, I will hunt you down."
30It takes a Democrat to talk sense in New Jersey: "...dear God, we should not be putting civil rights issues to a popular vote subject to the sentiments of the day. No minority should have their rights subject to the passions and sentiments of the majority."
30Washington State Senate passes gay marriage bill.
30Obama is officially a natural-born citizen.
30Norway disestablishes its state-funded church. Secularists, always happy to sling broadsides at their best friends in lieu of grappling with an actual adversary, rejoice.
30Newt Gingrich facing bankruptcy.
30South Korean creationists win a petiton to get the teaching evolution banned in S. Korean schools.
30Denmark legalizes same-sex marriage. Helle! :)
30Glenn Beck is aghast at Glee's message of acceptance and diversity and wants to create a conservative version to destroy it.
30Calling all RationalWikians living in Alabama: Can you please spread the word that it isn't the 1950s anymore?
30In the United States, atheism up, religion down according to Gallup.
30Mittens: I pay at least 13% in taxes and 10% in charity. Alright then. Release them so we can put this to rest, just like your father did when running for governor of Michigan, and like Obama did with his freaking birth certificate,
30So, who hates small businesses now?
30The repeal of DADT is one year old and, guess what, the US military hasn't imploded.
30Missouri is redefining the crazification factor.
30Rainbow design on milk carton? Gay propaganda, of course!
30A terrestrial-type exoplanet has been discovered orbiting around Alpha Centauri B (not Proxima Centauri, which is α Cen C), only 4 light years away from the Solar System.
30People who have spent the last 4 years questioning Obama's birthplace, urged to vote for somebody who obviously wasn't born in the USA.
30Final result: 332-206
30For every action there is an equally stupid reaction
30So, little Uganda, what would you like for Christmas? "I wanna kill the gays!"
30Bobby Jindal's school voucher plan is ruled unconstitutional
30That disconcerting sensation of hoping the Daily Mail will win.
30Are corporations people? Let's test that idea!
30"Democrats and independents with more political knowledge were found to be more likely to dismiss conspiracy theories [such as Birtherism and 9/11 Trutherism], while Republicans with more political knowledge were more likely to believe the theories."
30Your move, Jong-un. UPDATE: North Korea ends all non-aggression pacts with the South, the largest escalation since the Korean War.
30Creationist stakes $10,000 on contest between Bible and evolution. Why do I get the feeling he'll never pay up?
30Attention Cranks: this is how academia works
30Megyn Kelly, to, essentially, RINO-hood.
30In Texas, you can murder a hooker who takes your money but won't have sex with you,as long as you do it at night. Updateno, it wasn't like that at all
30"I never produced them for public distribution, I swear!"
30The Washington Post: Let's burn the bridge right after we've crossed it.
30Natural selection in process: The Prairie Rattlesnake, which evolved its rattle to warn off large animals that were not its predators, is now in the process of de-evolving its rattle in part because it acts as a bull's-eye for gun-toting humans.
30Meet the issus nymph, an adolescent insect about 2.5 mm long. Its jumping legs can generate a coordinated accelerating force of nearly 400 Gs thanks to a feature never before seen in a biological creature -- mechanical gears!
30Boehner, it's over. Update: This is just embarassing. Get ready for the downgrade. Update II: The House GOP is really screwed now. First they stalled the Senate negotiations this morning; they then tried for another vote this evening in an attempt to, if passed (and the upper branch/Obama voted against) frame themselves as the true compromising ones of the impasse. Guess what just fucking happened. (John McCain: “Republicans have to understand we have lost this battle...we would not be able to win because we were demanding something that was not achievable.”)
30Germany threatens to cut off supply of the anaesthetic propofol to the USA if they use it for executions
30The European Court of Justice decides that being gay is a valid ground for asylum.
30Undeterred by the firestorm they elicited in July when they told their minimum wage employees how to budget their meager paycheck, McDonald's has now issued another helpful missive with tips on how to stretch their money this holiday season -- like returning their presents for cash, and bringing a sack lunch to work.
30Making BioShock a reality: no foolin', they've called their enclave "Galt's Gulch".
309th circuit court of appeals rules that bloggers are entitled to the same protections against libel suits as the traditional press.
30Creationists attack Neil deGrasse Tyson for his blind faith in science.
30The Roberts Court is now in extreme retrograde.
30Mississippi students might honestly be better off with no sex-ed than what they're getting.
30[5] Swedish MP ordered chemtrail probe. Took "a few hours".
30Canada's middle class income now surpasses the USA's. Now we can afford to eat more poutine eh?
30Louie Gohmert: Constitution only protects Americans who ‘cling to God and guns’.
30West Antarctica glacier melt has "passed the point of no return"
30Bryan College demands faculty affirm that Adam and Eve were real, loses 9 of their 44 professors, students not happy.
30Meanwhile, consensus candidate easily wins election in Ukraine, with the far-right reduced to 2% of the vote. Guess who lied out of his ass again.
30King of the birthers, WND's Joseph Farah, arrested for trying to carry a loaded gun on to an airplane.
30As if Paul LePage, Maine's wingnut governor wasn't bad enough, now it's been discovered that he's been meeting with a Sovereign citizen terrorist group, and largely agrees with them.
30Fidel Castro's niece and Raúl Castro's daughter, Mariela Castro, becomes the first Cuban MP ever to find out that they can vote with 'no' in parliament. What was the issue? A law against "workplace discrimination based on gender, race and sexual orentation", which she perceived as not broad enough.
30Silicon Valley technolibertarianism and startup culture have your best interests at heart. About SLOG, Uber's program for lying to customers and fraudulently sabotaging competitors. Creative disruption!
30CSIRO (Australia's national science body) is only 99.999% certain that global warming is caused by humans. Still not a 100% consensus!
30Please describe Ted Cruz and his followers with one adjective.
30Russia sets the bar for hypocrisy impossibly high.
30An independent researcher does our due diligence for us and confirms that over 100 contemporary historical texts contain no mention of Jesus
30"Even if we say there is not one child who has been cured of acute lymphoblastic leukemia by [Six Nations/Iroquois] traditional methods, is that a reason to invoke child protection?" Judge says forcing a Native Canadian girl with leukemia to pursue modern chemotherapy over traditional First Nations medicine is to "impose our world view on First Nation culture."
30Paul Elam appears to consider mere trademark law optional. Their victims are less than pleased and "are exploring all of our options."
30Oklahoma Capitol's Ten Commandments monument suffered a temporary lack of God was destroyed by a car.
30With the clearing of a New York doctor, there are now no known possible cases of Ebola in the United States.
30The Ferguson police now have some allies: The Ku Klux Klan. This will end well. Update: Anonymous starts unmasking Klansmen. Update 2: The Klan reacts predictably.
30Scott Lively runs out of appeals; to stand trial for crimes against humanity.
30Closure of Milwaukee voucher school leaves 200 kids in the lurch, but hey! At least the owner got his $35 million... for having 2-3% of his students read and do maths at grade level.
30So, Pope Francis has developed a reputation as an enlightened breath of fresh air in the Vatican. Except when it comes to Charlie Hebdo, free speech and satirizing or insulting someone's faith and belief. In that case, Papa Frankie thinks that there are limits to questioning the "dignity" that he says every religion has.
30Mike Huckabee, a potential presidential candidate for 2016, says that if the SCOTUS rules for Gay Marriage, the states can just ignore them
30One does not simply get suspended from school for stupid reasons. Or maybe one does. 9-year-old suspended from Texas school after making "terroristic threats" with the One Ring To Rule Them All.
30Kickstarter -- Now the home of the Laundry ball. Crystal Wash 2.0, Clean Laundry with No Detergents. The page claims that the balls increase the pH of the water to 8.5, and release Hydrogen Peroxide into the wash (Fun fact: Those should not work together. Hydrogen Peroxide lowers PH.) Hits all the marks for the Laundry-Ball scam, including focusing on gimmicks like an embedded, Bluetoothed PH scanner and a phone app. Guess what? It's over half-way funded, asking for $100,000, and it's Staff-Picked.
30Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says that civil liberties must be sacrificed in order to protect Australians from attacks.
30Because "sex is priceless" and therefore has no monetary value, North Carolina's Ethics Commission has declared that sex between politicians and other people (as long as they aren't registered as a lobbyist, but can be paid for by a third party) is "not reportable as gifts or ‘reportable expenditures made for lobbying’ for purposes of the lobbying law’s expenditure reporting provisions."
30Facts go in, lies come out. You can't explain that.
30That feeling that your opposition to the death penalty is wavering. That. Delhi rapist says victim shouldn't have fought back
30Anything Indiana can do, Florida can do worse. Way, way worse.
30In what can only be described as a backhand by the invisible hand, a labor union becomes first to pull conference from Indy
29Stephen Hawking drops gOD from his new book: "It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."
29Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will hold rallies in Washington on October 30th.
29Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell are defeated in their quest to restore insanity to Washington.
29Starting as they mean to go on? Two GOP congressmen break the rules before they're even sworn in.
29DeLay sentenced to 3 years for money laundering.
29 Fox News ratings way down, Glenn Beck especially.
29Read it and weep. 72% of US Biology teachers fail to describe straightforwardly the evidence for evolution and explain the ways in which it is a unifying theme in all of biology.
29Glenn Beck is kicked off TV will "transition off of his daily program" later this year.
29Glenn Beck raises hopes threatens to quit and raise horses if The Onion wins a Pulitzer. People have started writing letters encouraging the committee to give The Onion a prize.
29In Britain; Ghosts and aliens are more believable than God.
29Skinheads assault Native American family. Guess who gets arrested?
29As fine upstanding conservative US citizens, the Murdochs can tell the MPs who want them to answer questions about phone hacking to go fuck themselves. They may not be able to say that to the FBI, though.
29Blasphemy: Now UN-Approved.
29Wikipedia considering a blackout to protest SOPA. (But you knew that.) Vote there, not here. OK, you can vote here too. UPDATE: They're going for it. Let's hope the world takes note.
29A US Congressman thought The Onion was a real news source.
29For the ninth year in a row, PBS is "the most trusted institution in the US', and is considered an "excellent" use of tax dollars, according to a new national poll.
29The greatest post-mortem trolling of all time: As Caribou Barbie, Mitt Romney, John Boehner and other conservatives offer their praises to the life of Sally Ride, the first American woman in space is revealed to have been a lesbian.
29DOMA ruled unconstitutional again, this time in New York.
29Right-wingers file petitions to secede from the US.[No, not The Onion]
29IRS being sued for not taking action against tax-exempt churches that become involved in political campaigns.
29Science meets sweetness as stem cells restore a man's eyesight from the brink of blindness...with stem cells donated by his sister! D'aaawww!
29Better late than never. World War II code-breaker, who possibly "shortened the war by 2 years", finally gets honour at age of 92.
29Oh God, the wingnut response is going to be hilarious.
29Dear Hurricane Sandy victims. Fuck you! Love, the Republican Party.
29About fucking time.
29The NRA goes even further off the rails: Let's not give the POTUS' family Secret Service protection! Sure, nothing can go wrong!
29"So what did you learn in your Texan school today, Cletus Jr.?" "That Jews have it wrong and blacks are black for punishment!" The Lone Star state does it again...
29A Christian school fired a woman for having premarital sex and then hired the man she had the premarital sex with.
29Richard Littlejohn has blood on his hands.
29The Human Rights Campaign shows its uglier, appearance-obsessed side once more. Last I checked, immigrants and transgender people are humans too.
29Apparently 10 seconds on Google is too hard for a number of people, forcing the Czech Republic's embassy to clear things up
29Homosexual civil unions in Colorado are nowlegal and celebrated.
29Brazil's National Council of Justice votes with a 14-1 majority in favour of gay marriage, arguing that since same-sex marriage is already legal in some jurisdictions, it cannot be denied in others. According to Wikipedia this means that gay marriage is now legal in all of Brazil, while other sources say that it still may or has to go before the Supreme Court and/or Congress.
29Woman dies after being denied medication, cops thought she was "faking" it
29Never mind being fired, it's possible someone's going to be killed over these leaks. The Guardian reportsUK intelligence services have been actively participating in the NSA's PRISM dragnet.
29Muslim cleric in Egypt sentenced for burning a Bible. In other news, the heads of Islamophobes everywhere have exploded
29Back in Florida, another black teenager is killed by a white male who "felt threatened" and stood his ground. How did it begin? Loud music. And of course, he acted "as any responsible firearms owner would have".
29In a small town south of Glasgow, members of a small, fundamentalist sect from the Deep South of the US that call themselves the US Church of Christ -- which from their beliefs and tactics would seem to have nothing to do with the similarly named United Church of Christ -- has spent the last eight years indoctrinating the children of a local public primary school, all with the blessing of the school's primary teacher, and now the chagrin of some very pissed-off parents who just found out about it.
29Our freeman on the land friend in Alberta who declared the house he was renting a sovereign embassy has been arrested on outstanding warrants from Quebec. Is anyone surprised? Bonus: "Earlier this week, The Canadian Press was faxed a fee schedule for the alleged unauthorized use of copyrighted names, including Andreas Pirelli and Mario Antonacci. The fax says the fee is $1 million for each use of each name."
29Are hundreds of thousands of Christians dying for their faith? What's that law about headlines that take the form of a question?
29America's 50 worst charities.
29Walmart in Ohio begs for food to feed those of its employees who cannot afford to feed themselves on their Walmart salaries
29Dan Savage talks about "kiddie-fucking priests on Real Time With Bill Maher. In response, Bill Donohue calls on US bishops to support their local kiddie-fuckers by petitioning Time-Warner to cancel Real Time and sever ties with Bill Maher.
29Issa To Texas Health Official: 'You Need To Watch More Fox News'
29Utah county adopts Jim Crow-era tactic, closes its Clerk's Office until the gay marriage appeal process has played out. So yeah, screw you straight folk too.
29How to get free stuff from aliens.
29Well, that came out of nowhere. BBC Worldwide is in negotiations to broadcast Doctor Who, EastEnders, Mr. Bean, Top Gear, Teletubbies, and others in North Korea.
29Though it pains us all to say it: Thank you, David Cameron.
29Toxic mix of two of the US' unresolved crises: an Iraq veteran with PTSD buys a .45, then kills three people at Fort Hood, wounds 16 and commits suicide.
29No Rick Scott, you can't remove voters from the voter rolls right before an election. That's not ok.
29The Bitcoin train is running out of fuel, as mining becomes way more expensive than the payoff in coins.
29Neanderthals share about 99.84 percent of their genetics with humans. Why are we so different from them? Because there are several genetic "switches" turned on in us that were turned off in them, while others that were turned on in them are turned off in us.
291. Rome already crushed with pilgrims for historic canonization of Pope John Paul II and John XXIII
2. Falling crucifix of John Paul II crushes man to death in northern Italy.
29Cliven Bundy now claims to be receiving messages from God, and more insanity from the Bundy ranch and its cohort of gun nuts.
29Evangelicals bone up their ‘raising the dead’ skills
29Killer. Fucking. Robots.
29Mike Adams of NaturalNews is making legal threats against a Forbes blogger, and Forbes itself, for documenting his gibbering lunacy. (Response from Adams, response from original threatened author.) And a Discover Magazine blogger says nice things about RW.
29Sovereign citizen nutcase shoots at police. Amazingly, is not cut down in a hail of gunfire.
29Fox News host wants Putin as president to get things 'done right'Not the Onion
29Guess who don't like evolution either.
29Alaska becomes the latest State to join the 21st century. Obligatory.
29Yay! An unregulated currency! What could possibly go wrong?
29Sarah Palin says that the haters make her want to get into politics again. Democrat and Tea Party supporters rejoice everywhere.
29BENGHAZI! ...what a waste of time.
29Trickle down economics slows growth, says the OECD
29March for solidarity in Paris? Cool! Just keep those nasty vaginas out of it!
29Kansas governor Sam Brownback yanks protection for LGBT state workers.
29Saturday afternoon, in Copenhagen, Denmark a terrorist shot one man dead and wounded three police officers during a debate on blasphemy and free speech involving a cartoonist who has caricatured Muhammad. During the night, the gunman went to Copenhagen's synagogue and, attempting to attack a bar mitzvah ceremony, killed a young Jewish guard and wounded two police officers. This was in apparent imitation of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. In the early hours of Sunday morning, the police spotted the suspected gunman. As the police called out to him, the gunman opened fire on the police; they returned fire, killing him.
29After a report at Mother Jones questions Bill O'Reilly's statements about his "war correspondent" credentials, Bill states the writer will be "in the Kill Zone" once the truth comes out.
29Bill O'Reilly says he doesn't want to play anymore tries to put his scandal to rest by showing footage of other reports confirming what he said, but not that he was actually there, missing the point entirely. If that is not enough"I am coming after you with everything I have," O'Reilly told the Times. "You can take it as a threat."
29Here's a jawbone that God put in the ground to test our faith.
29Dawn is in orbit around Ceres, the first dwarf planet to receive a visitation from Earth.
29In shocking conformity with the fates of most darknet markets, Evolution Marketplace, another Silk Road successor, has vanished and its owners fled with $12 million worth of Bitcoins.
29“Yes, we took her and we raped her. So what?” – At least 54 Colombian girls sexually abused by immune US military
29The white skin of Europeans is a recent evolutionary innovation that was rare until around 6,000 years ago. It has absolutely nothing to do with other things that are being referenced to as "6000 years ago"
29A GOP congressman who sponsored H.R.718 (aka, the Abstinence Education Reallocation Act of 2013) has an unmarried 17-year-old daughter. Can you guess the next part of this story?
29Mehmet Oz gets some love from his fellow physicians. He's also been shilling for Sony.
28A new bill in Uganda could execute people for the terrible terrible crime of... being gay. This bill, inspired by the fundamentalist right in the United States, would place people in prison for 7 years for giving rooms to gays, and would place doctors in prison for failing to tell the state about gay patients. Conservatives continue to fret about healthcare, but at least Rick Warren has come out against the bill.
28Christine O'Donnell doesn't know about the Constitution. Fox News reports the story with a considerably different angle.
28BREAKING NEWS (as of 12 noon Central Time, 8 January): Tucson area Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (a Democrat) was shot in the head while addressing constituents at a Tucson supermarket. (Up to 12 other people were also shot.) NPR reports that the Congresswoman's status is unclear, but she might be alive and in surgery. As of 2:15 p.m. CST, the Arizona Republic reports that she had a single through-and-through gunshot wound to the head, she is now out of surgery and one of her surgeons is "very optimistic about her recovery."
28Missouri state Senator Jane Cunningham has introduced a bill to eliminate the prohibition of employing children under 14. She states this will cultivate a work ethic in young people, and says to responds to criticism saying that they still can't work in dangerous jobs, like coal mines, with animals, with blades or involving dangerous stunts.
28Fox News executive admits to lying repeatedly about Obama.
28A Columbia University study of 32,000 Oregon teenagers finds that in conservative strongholds, not only are gay teens more likely to attempt suicide, but straight teens are also more likely to attempt suicide than straight teens in more liberal areas.
28If you support capital punishment, go fuck yourself.
28Scott Walker, Gov. of Wisconsin who tried to ban collective bargaining rights, now faces a recall election, with almost double the number of votes required in the petition having been presented.
28Prop 8 declared unconstitutional again, this time by a three-judge panel of the federal Ninth Circuit. The Supreme Court case looks inevitable.
28Washington state legalizes gay marriage. Meanwhile, a bit further south, certain residents of California are having none of it and are going straight to the Supreme Court to throw a hissy fit.
28The 2012 conservative campaign against women reaches absurd new levels. Remember, Repulicans want small government. Very small government.
28This is why I like having Barack Obama in the White House: President meets Nichelle Nichols, both give the Vulcan hand salute.
28And now, the day before his birthday, HuffPo brings you two entries for the Godwin almanac: Central Illinois bishop claims President Obama is on "a similar path" as You-Know-Who and Stalin; and West Virginia Republican senate candidate says that requiring restaurants to put "no smoking" signs on the front doors is like requiring Jews to wear Stars of David on their lapels.
28Republican spokesman calls for acid to be thrown in the faces of female Democrats.
28 The U.S Supreme Court strikes down 3/4 of the controversial Arizona immigration law. Pundits explode into confusion and rage
28Where is he now? Thirteen year old Conservative wunderkind is now seventeen...and not a Conservative anymore.
28An Arizona pastor is jailed for holding "bible study" for 150 people in a 2,000 square foot "game room" he built in his back yard after being denied a permit to build a church on his residential property and failing an inspection. What does Fox News frame it as? An attack on religious freedom.
28Florida does it again: a man shoots and kills an unarmed door-to-door salesman
28It died a quick death. Released in April, a Christian publisher has yanked a biography of Thomas Jefferson which had already been voted "the least credible history book in print," by readers of the History News Network in July. "We carefully edit every book we publish, and we rely on the expertise of our authors concerning their subjects," a representative for the publisher said. "It is extremely rare that the company would have to withdraw a book from the market based on concerns about its content." Memo to Christian publishers: If the byline contains the name "David Barton," it's full of lies myths distortions you should be concerned about its content!
28Cash-strapped Spanish cities consider taxing the Catholic Church.
28Remember when Obamacare survived the Supreme Court and wingnuts threatened to move to Canuckistan? It happened. Again. Update: And to Australia, where their "president" is a male Christian, apparently.
28More than six in ten U.S. residents blame the recent extreme weather on climate change. And now the bad news...
28Michigan's governor does the only possible decent thing.
28Alex Jones, Gun Blobby leader, rants at Piers Morgan, who looks on blankly while he masses his Big Pharma robodrones to take down Alex just like Building 7 in a hail of lazerz. So he can lead the NWO.
28On Sunday morning, Joe Scarborough said on Meet the Press that the only reason the GOP controls the House of Representatives is because of gerrymandering. About 36 hours later, the Republicans in the evenly divided Virginia state senate waited until they were sure that one Democratic state senator was at President Obama's inauguration before issuing a gleeful "NO SHIT, JOE!!!"
28So, a homeopath tried to sell Oscillococcinum to Jimmy Wales ...UPDATE: Check the Facebook comments for retorts from Dana Ullman.
28Atlas Shrugged Part 2 fails as badly as part 1. (The fans in the comments are great.) Will we see part 3?
28Maybe Andy was right about video games: College students play video games, use what they've learned to slice people open!
28Possible Higgs boson found in 2012 now probable Higgs boson.
28Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), former supporter of DOMA, renounces opposition to gay marriage, but is still kind of a jerk.
28Rest in peace, Roger Ebert. You will be missed. UPDATE: The official obituary posted to his blog Update II: The Onion's obituary for Ebert, that manages to be both classy, and The Onion, at the same time.
28The Republicans have taken control of the US senate and retain control of the house. In other news, Marijuana is legal in Oregon
28Rick Perry's advice to the Boy Scouts of America on a Family Research Council webcast: Oppose "gay pop culture" Sam Houston opposed slavery. Okay, in two weeks teh gheys have been compared to cheaters,smokers and now slavers. What's next? UPDATE: Pat Robertson answers the "what's next" with"rapists, thieves, and murderers".
28Japan is now the new home for political batshittery.
28Meanwhile, Erick Erickson shows that a bit of Obama-bashing is far more important than being a decent human being.
28BNP and EDL versus anti-hate demonstrators and badgers:badgers win.
28Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to 7 years for having sex with an underage prostitute.
28Whoopsies! A left-wing legislator in Costa Rica inserted some pro-gay marriage language into a bill that would amend that nation's "Law of Young People." The righties helped pass the amendment without reading the full bill, and now they're losing their collective shit over it. (The law now awaits the president's signature, followed by a constitutional review.) No doubt this legislator realized that right-wingers usually don't like to read the bills that they vote on -- e.g., Eric Cantor's reasoning last week for why the House leadership didn't want to consider the Senate-passed immigration bill.
28Noted anti-vaccine crank Jenny McCarthy nowgets to spew her nonsense on national TV on a daily basis.
28Cherry on top for this week's Royal Assent of gay marriage: It seems Alan Turing will finally be pardoned.
28Former US Navy Seal comes out as male-to-female transgender. You go girl!
28Coming soon: Vaccine for malaria
28A 17-year old in Florida shoots and kills a 40-year old man with an illegally obtained gun. He gets away with it under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law because the victim was carrying a big stick, even though his friend got away beforehand by running.
28Elsevier enters final desperation stage, going after authors sharing their own papers online. Repeat after me: "Elsevier delenda est." Update: Hits The Chronicle.
28When anti-asylum sentiment, liberal media whining and Nazi apologism combine.
28New Mexico gives residents an early Christmas prezzie, and becomes the 17th US state to legalise gay marriage.
28And so ends the dumbest manufactroversy since Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: "Months of investigation by The New York Times, centered on extensive interviews with Libyans in Benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there and its context, turned up no evidence that al-Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault... And contrary to claims by some members of Congress, it was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam."
28Guess what the first Europeans looked like. Heritage, not hate!
28Kepler telescope has identified 715 new exoplanets
28Another psychic fraud never saw it coming.
28Daylight saving claims another victim.
28Guess who profits from "abortion."
28Not content to limit access to abortion, birth control and voting rights, Republican politicians are now targeting divorce laws, specifically no-fault divorce statutes because divorce makes God sad.
28Ku Klux Klan setting up 'Neighborhood Watch' in Pennsylvania town (Sound familiar?)
28We're on a roll: Idaho's gay marriage ban is gone - and Antonin Scalia is now reduced to a punchline.
28UKIP's cunning plan to prove itself totally not racist by flaunting its ethnic minority members falls flat in a disastrous "carnival" event on the streets of Croydon complete with protesters, terrible PR, alienated locals, an unhappy and unpaid band, and a party leader who stayed the hell away from it.
28Hey, remember when we invaded Iraq? I wonder how that turned out? Not well. Not well at all.
28No money to pay the truancy fines for your 7 children? We'll stick you in jail for a few days to contemplate the error of your ways. What could possibly go wrong?
28New York City renames a street after George Carlin. The Church of Rome objects.
28Rep. Curt Clawson (R-Fla.) mistakes two senior officials, Nisha Biswal and Arun Kumar (respectively from the State Department and Commerce Department), for representatives of the Indian government. During a Congressional hearing.
28Human Rights activist John McCain condemns screwed up two-hour execution as torture.
28Hungary: led by a professional dumbass.
28Why do House Republicans fail to pass something so obviously in the country's best interest? Who knows. It certainly isn't racism.
28The heartbreaking dark side of when respected academic journals get bought: The formerly respectable journal Experimental & Clinical Cardiology will print any bullcrap you send them for $1,200.
28What's not the matter with Kansas? A Democrat attempts to drop out of the Senate race to prevent the GOP from winning control of Congress. The RNC flips a table.
28Virginia "family values" governor McDonnell guilty of corruption
28It appears we need to have a lot more of these APEC summits (aside from the Star Trek regalia and Putin hitting on everyone): China has agreed to its first serious climate targets, bringing the denial staircase to #10.
28And so begins the second (third?) phase of the Republican Civil War: Obama pulls a Reagan/Bush/whatever, announcing executive action to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation. (Get ready for a historic two years.)
28President Obama: the only people with the right to object to immigration are Native Americans.
28Same-sex marriage is coming to Finland.
28Czech scientists manage to create all the components of RNA in an experiment simulating an asteroid impact.
28Due to high rate of road accidents, Russia has announced tightened medical restrictions and contraindications to driving, encompassing those with hereditary eye disorders, severe epilepsy, dementia... compulsive gambling, PTSD, transvestism, and transgenderism? Oh dears.(Official Russian Gov Doc with ICD-10 references can be found at http://government.ru/media/files/A5X9GSAYrpA.pdf)
28Not all Muslims are terrorists: the brother of the murdered Paris policeman speaks. Update: Lassana Bathily: the Paris kosher supermarket hero
28The myth of a Good Guy with a Gun is statistically wrong on every level.
28A sad, sad day for satire and for journalism: after over fifteen years, Jon Stewart is leaving The Daily Show.
28Firm gender binaries are pretty much pseudoscience now. It's really quite a lot more complicated than that.
28American and British intelligence agencies broke into the networks of the primary manufacturer of cell phone SIM cards to obtain the cards' encryption keys. They also appear to have gained access to some phone companies' systems.
28South Korea decriminalises adultery. Condoms rise.
28Using sales taxes (which hurt the poor) instead of property taxes (which hit the rich) to pay for education has left South Carolina with an $866 million shortfall. Everyone seems to act like fixing the problem would only make it worse.
28As more GOP-led states try to implement religion-based discriminatory laws, we get this gem from Oklahoma State Senator Joseph Silk, "The L.G.B.T. movement is the main thing, the primary thing that’s going to be challenging religious liberties and the freedom to live out religious convictions. And I say that sensitively, because I have homosexual friends."
28Huge meta-study by Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council finds homeopathy no better than placebos.
28CH3CN found in baby star system, with potential implications for likelihood of life forming elsewhere.
28Another entrant in the race to be "the worst kind of human on the planet:" A 2013 bill in Tennessee would allow Christian counselors to reject suicidal LGBT students.
27It's life Jim, but not as we know it.
27"They said that I was a f** and that I should die and go to hell, where I belonged. This story is for the young people who might be holding the gun tonight, or the rope or the pill bottle. You need to know that the story doesn't end where I didn't tell it, on that unfortunate day."
27States that stress abstinence-only sex-ed have far higher rates of teen pregnancy. You don't say?
27Brazil elects its first female president, leftist, pro-choice, former guerrilla member and former marxist militant Dilma Rousseff. God help Brazil.
27After 18 teenage boys gang raped an 11 year old girl, Florida Rep. Kathleen Passidomo takes blaming the victim to a whole new level by deciding the best course of action to prevent it in the future is to introduce a dress code for young girls.
27May 26, 2011: Ratko Mladić, the ethnic Serbian military leader accused of being responsible for the murder of 8,000 Serbian Muslims at Srebrenica, the largest massacre since WW II, was arrested in Serbia after 16 years on the run. He will be extradited to the Hague to stand trial for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
27If you thought the News of the World couldn't sink any lower… well, it turns out they can.
27Further proof that libertarians are talking bullshit: even a small county can save $1 million by "de-privatizing" its jail.
27Lawsuit: Obama can't be President because he's a mulatto. (At least they've stopped pretending it's not about race.)
27Gay marriage has been signed into law in Maryland. 8 states down, 42 to go.
27Rush Limbaugh update: He's properly fucked this one up. Additional: ThinkProgress is keeping a tally of the advertisers that have dropped him, and one lawyer states that Sandra Fluke has sufficient grounds to pursue a libel/defamation suit. And what the hell does "overeducated" mean?
27Home-birth advocate proclaims: "Free-birthing is beautiful! It's natural! It's how ALL births should be done! (Oh, um, just ignore the fact that I caused the death of my own baby)
27Anderson Cooper comes out.
27Victory for religious freedom in middle Tennessee.
27America seems to have started dragging Canada down the intellectual drain. Witness the horror as Queens Jubilee medals, the same ones given to war heroes, are given to anti-choice activists as Conservative MP's compare them to the likes of MLK. Weep for the future...
27Exhibit A why moral panics should never be the basis of major legislation: REAL ID Act + Defense of Marriage Act = no drivers license in your married name.
27"Males go for most mates, females for best mates" experiment turns out to have been completely wrong.
27Rather than allow protection for lesbians, Native Americans and immigrants, House Republicans allow the Violence Against Women Act to expire.
27Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in the universe, a clump of active galactic cores that stretches 4 billion light-years from end to end.
27So, what lesson did you learn today, gun nuts?
27Israel demonstrates to the world how much of a modern, democratic nation in the Middle East they are. Correction: Independent article is blown out of proportion and misleading.
279/11 Truther defaces artwork in the Louvre.
27Habemus Papam. Update: It's Jorge Mario Bergoglio AKA Francis I, from Argentina.
27Possible college gun massacre stopped by traditional 911 call to police.
27Outsourcing services to the private sector is more efficient and saves money. Now, with that right-wing mantra in mind, here's a case where an outsourced, privately contracted translator refuses to turn up to a court hearing because they wouldn't make enough money for it to be worth it. Update: Not only was this kind of thing seen coming a year ago, it's been happening the whole time, and it's been well-understoodthat the outsourcing program has produced strings of failures.
27After staunchly defending the sanctity of traditional family by banning gay everything, Putin is gettingdivorced.
27Here's why double-checking math calculations is important. Due to one misplaced decimal point, a newSpanish submarine may sink because it's 70 tons too heavy.
27Meet Rep. Michael Burgess, the congressman representing the area of Texas north of Fort Worth, and today's candidate for Republican Grand Wizard of What-the-Fuckery. During a committee meeting he made a statement on video that abortions shouldn't be limited to 20 weeks (as the current GOP bill proposes) but to 15 or 16 weeks because -- brace yourselves! -- little boy fetuses are shown on sonograms with their hands between their legs, pleasuring themselves.
27Ahead of the Texas state abortion bill vote, capitol security guardsconfiscated tampons and condoms. Guns are still okay, however. Remember, if you outlaw tampons, only outlaws will have tampons!
27Your government at work: When video of first responders running over survivor goes public, the solution is to get rid of the cameras.
27UK government-funded, Orthodox-Jewish, girls's school doesn't like evolution so censors national exam papers.
27 Attorney Joseph DiBenedetto, speaking on Faux News: 14-year-old rape victim was asking for it.
27Yellowstone plan for recovery of native trout, which are being forced out by imported trout, is Obama's War on Fish to Fox.
27Cautious optimism: Six-month nuclear deal agreed with Iran. (Best comment so far - "Folks who follow lots of right-wing nutjobs are going to check Twitter tomorrow and think that President Obama sold weapons to Iran.")
27In other emerging-space-nation news, the Chinese lunar rover[wp] is on its way.
27To no one's actual surprise, the NSA appears to have backdoored practically every US tech security company's product lines. I think this means Huawei is owed an apology.
27Hubble Space Telescope spots clouds on alien worlds
27Tiktaalik - another transitional fossil added to the list.
27Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests for child abuse.
27Texas charter schools are teaching Creationism. I'm sure we're all just shocked to find gambling in this establishment.
27Tony Abbott: Why isn't the public broadcaster my own propaganda outlet? I'm very mad!
27The UN: So, Holy See, when you discovered that your priests were involved in sexual abuse for decades on end, why on earth did you go to such lengths to let it continue? Vatican: Our non-existent gay lobby did it.
27Now watch closely, I'm only going to do this once...
27New Zealand has no information to disprove the theory that Mr John Key (the Prime minister) is in fact a David Icke-style shape reptilian shifting alien ushering humanity towards enslavement. Must be a slow news day! Update: I'm not crazy for asking....honest!!
27National Science Foundation pollsters asked 2200 people in the US if the sun goes around the earth of if the earth goes around the sun. The results: 74 percent answered in the affirmative for heliocentrism. (And if you're gloating about ignorant 'Murikans from Yurp, be advised that only 66 percent of EUers gave the right answer.)
27As if North Korea couldn't get more outlandish. Update: It's more of a recommendation than strict order.
27GOP congressman tells low-income worker: higher minimum wage is ‘not right’.
27Adrienne Wadewitz, who was a more valuable Wikipedia contributor than most anyone, has died. Go fix some citations in her honour.
27"The gun was in an unloaded state but did have live rounds in the magazine. We believe the three-year-old had to manipulate the action enough to chamber a live round prior to the incident occurring." How many instances of toddler-on-toddler gun crime have there been since Sandy Hook?
27Flooding and landslides in Bosnia-Herzegovina claim many victims in one of the greatest humanitarian catastrophes caused by a natural disaster that Europe has faced in decades. Donations can go to the Red Cross to provide such essentials as potable water for those affected.
27Reportedly, Fred Phelps was kicked out of the Westboro Baptist Church shortly before his death because he had a change of heart, coming out in favour of LGBT rights. If true, it means anyone can change.
27'Green' Billionaire Announces Plans to Go After 'Anti-Science' Republicans.
2725th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. Let's hope that it isn't suppressed for another 25.
27Wisconsin becomes the latest state to rule in favor of marriage equality. In related news, there are now lawsuits in progress in every state that still bans same-sex marriage.
27Virginia GOP resorts to outright bribery of a Democratic state senator in order to derail the expansion of Obamacare and Medicare in the state. (Of course, the asshole took them up on the offer).
27Someone check Glenn Beck's batteries, because his clock has STOPPED.
27There's no gentle way to ease you into this... Ben Stein in sexting scandal.
27The US doesn't have a monopoly on crazy politicians
27Google: Okay, okay, we won't be evil. (Facebook and Microsoft also said their goodbyes to ALEC.)
27Greg Abbott, Texas' soon-to-be-governor: Banning gay marriage would reduce out-of-wedlock births, because otherwise different-sex couples would be less interested in marrying and having children.
27Diversity in America is increasing, and that's a good thing. How long will it take for somebody to disagree?
27A study that followed 1,037 individuals from birth to age 38 shows that adolescent onset cannabis use is associated with cognitive decline across a broad range of functioning. Full text of the study available here.
27We have until the turn of the century.
27Solar power is getting dramatically cheap.
27If you're communications director to a Congressman, don't diss Obama's kids. Especially if you ever did something newsworthy as a teenager, or have ever shown any lack of class.
27Bill passes in the Michigan House of Representatives to make it legal to discriminate, on religious grounds.
27San Franciscan police officer batters sleeping hospital patient; claims he was assaulted.
27Pope Francis begins the celebration of Festivus by airing his grievances over the Vatican Bureaucracy. "spiritual Alzheimer's" ... saucer of milk?
27"We're not anti-police." Emerald Garner, daughter of Eric Garner, offers support and condolences to families of slain NYPD officers.
27Researchers find the ancient genetic link between fish fins and animal hands.
27Reconstruction of the face of a Native American girl who died 12000 years ago reveals a face that doesn't match contemporary ideas about race, though genetic tests confirm she's related to the ancestral population.
27Winfield, Alabama city council announces that God now owns their town. God was not asked if He wanted it.
27The King is dead. Western leaders pay tribute and overlook the poor Saudi Arabian human rights record.
27Trans? Genderqueer? Pope Francis has an opinion about you.
27It simply has no end. We now have drug-resistant malaria as well. (Lancet paper, Lancet editorial.)
27"But there's no connection, and you'd be a fool and a communist to make one. There's no connection between having a gun and shooting someone with it, and NOT having a gun and NOT shooting someone."
27First rule of Florida Department of Environmental Protection is you don't talk about whether you have a policy of not using the phrase "climate change" or "global warming" in official communication. Second rule of the Florida DEP is you don't use the phrases "climate change" or "global warming".
27Senate hearing has a little fun with a Florida official who, by decree, can't say 'Climate Change'
27Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson has come under fire for making very offensive comme-- Wait, isn't this an old news story? Oh, no, it's happened again, this time towards atheists. Oh dear.
27Germanwings flight 4U 9525 from Barcelona to Dusseldorf has crashed in the French Alps. Unfortunately, no reported survivors.
27Apparently, Obama was really pissed at Netanyahu, as he has declassified a formerly top-secret, detailed document (from 1987) on Israel's neither confirmed nor denied nuclear weapons program, thereby allowing it to become public through a FOIA request. That happened just before this dude spoke to congress (before the Israeli election). (Full PDF)
27Black man pulled over by cops in 'Merica. You just know it didn't end well.
27Terrible human being Todd Kincannon, who once hoped that Ray Rice's girlfriend "learned her lesson when he beat her," arrested for domestic violence.
27US uninsured rate drops to 11.9%. Thanks, Obama.
27The power of one!
26Oh Lord, bless the bullets that are targeted in this sight. UPDATE: These bullets will have to fly straight without help from Jesus in future
26Andrew Wakefield (of MMR fame) is struck off the medical register after being found guilty of misconduct in his research. S'pose we have to call him Anew Wakefield now.
2610,000 Brits give the Pope the welcome he deserves.
26In the 19th century, fire departments were privately owned. If you weren't one of their paying customers, they would stand by while your house or business burned to the ground. But then evil socialists were elected seized power and forced government takeovers of these privately owned extortion rackets mom-and-pop businesses. Fortunately for the good people of northwestern Tennessee, the local government has reintroduced good, sound 19th century business ethics to their fire department.
26It's life, Jim, and completely unlike how how we know it. As reported in Science. NASA press release.
26*Sniff* God bless *sob* America.
26Palin refudiates her own 2007 statement on being pro-breastfeeding after Michelle Obama comes out as pro-breastfeeding.
26 The Catholic Church -- the American branch, that is -- has released the results of its five-year investigation into the priest child sex abuse scandal. And what a relief!!! They found the culprit!!! IT WUZ TEH HIPPIES!!!!! (Oh, and the fact that priests are an all-male bunch of cloistered celibates isn't a factor in the matter.)
26In a 7-2 decision, SCOTUS declares video games protected speech. (RW takes no responibility for the extremely broken layout of the linked website)
26The Oslo bombings and the shootings at the Norwegian Labor Party outing were all allegedly committed by one man -- a 32-year-old right-wing Norwegian nationalist with anti-Muslim views.
26Creationism is religious, superstitious nonsense, and teachers can't be sued for saying so.
26Professors put their money where Bachmann's mouth is.
26Faux News either really, really hate Obama, or they have no clue about statistics.
26Trying desperately to remain the stupidest guy named "Rick" in the Republican race, Santorum announces that "science should get out of politics."
26After doing badly in the Iowa caucus, Michele Bachmann backs out of the runnings.
26Florida is rapidly running out of irony meters: Rick Santorum states that Barack Obama's college reforms are part of a dangerous liberal indoctrination plot.
26Republicans: Nuke Iran! Nuke Iran! Obama: Facepalm.png
26If you couldn't love Sweden any further: Metro asks why children there enjoy Easter. In translation...
26Seriously, this needs to stop. Now.
26Joe "Sheriffs are all powerful"" Arpaio is sued by the Justice Department over civil rights abuses.
26More "Christian love:" Christians, carrying pigs' heads and chanting anti-Islam slogans, crash an Arab-American festival in Michigan.
26Huntsman smash! "I will not be attending this year's convention, nor any Republican convention in the future, until the party focuses on a bigger, bolder, more confident future for the United States—a future based on problem solving, inclusiveness, and a willingness to address the trust deficit, which is every bit as corrosive as our fiscal and economic deficits."
26Penn State takes down JoePa statue. Update: NCAA to Penn State: We'll teach you to shelter a pedophile and hail him as a hero. Penn State fined $60M, banned from bowl games for four years, all wins since 1998 vacated. How about that football pride now?
26Climate change deniers more likely to also believe that the moon landing were faked and that 9/11 was an inside job.
26Missouri legislates that creationist kids can refuse to study evolution.
26We might be in for quite a Streisand: Even the ultra-rich have begun to pay no income tax, and Romney's reluctance to release the data his returns is getting more and more suspicious.
26Joe the Plumber: "...put a damn fence on the border going to Mexico and start shooting."
26Meanwhile, at the Iowa State Fair: Hank Williams, Jr. - "Obama is a Muslim!" Obama - "mmm pork and beer nom nom nom."
26Just when you thought they couldn't grow them any dumber: A Texas high school grad-u-wate judge says if Obama wins, he wants to be prepared for civil war and a UN takeover.
26A word of advice to Republican politicians. The word "rape", stop using it.
26Fox goes to yet another new low.
26Libyans in Benghazi decide it's time to kick some Ansar al-Shariah ass.
26Ireland sees a four-fold increase in the number of people who say they have no religion since 1991.
26Romney, you're doing a heck of a job! UPDATE: Michael 'Heckuva Job' Brown accused Obama of responding too quickly to Sandy.
26The spin around Savita begins: There's no evidence that a Catholic ethos prevented people or inhibiting people from carrying out proper medical treatment.
26Millionaires ask to pay more taxes
26Bristol University's Christian Union Bans Women From Speaking At Meetings - Unless they're part of a husband & wife team. UUCF's Twitter feed suggests "...but some of my best friends are black!" Update: The power of public opinion
26 Mitch McConnell flip-flops, first requesting a vote then self-filibustering
26The NRA has nothing to say after the Connecticut massacre. Literally.
26In case you thought the Republican war on arithmetic was hyperbole: Fox News calls 6th grade algebra "political indoctrination".
26Obama administration releases proposals for gun control. Cue shitstorm in five...four...three...
26Quelle surprise! Homeopathy is 'rubbish', says UK chief medical officer. (The sad part is that this constitutes news.)
26Who saved the ancient manuscripts of Timbuktu from the Islamists? The librarians, of course!
26If this story is true, the sound of exploding irony meters will be deafening.
26"Millionaires are raking in unemployment benefits." The number of unemployment claims for US households earning more than $1 million jumped 44% in 2009-10. (Considering how often right-wingers call working class people on the dole "leeches," it's kinda heartwarming to read the comment section and see them jumping to the defense of all these rich people sucking on the public teat.)
26So, a new principal takes over at a failing school, and fires all the security guards and uses the money to reopen the arts wing. Three years later, that school is one of the most improved in the state.
26High school track team wins relay, one member points to the sky to thank divine intervention...andthe entire team is disqualified from the next round on grounds of "excessive celebration"...in Texas?! What?! Update:It wasn't a religious gesture.
26File under "I can't possibly see what could go wrong".
26Republicans: Benghazi is worst scandal ever! Uuuuhh... Where is Benghazi?
26All those dreadful investments the Obama Administration made in green car companies like Fisker - hey what a typical disaster of liberal Govt lending….oh, wait, maybe not…
26We can't reduce sales taxes on food, that would cause the poor to spend their money on food...
26HPV infections have dropped dramatically in the US since the broad administration of the HPV vaccine, cutting infections by half in four years. Party of No is confused as to what to say.
26Regarding the Texas state senator who filibustered the abortion bill: The GOP majority tried togerrymander her district out of existence in 2011, but she successfully sued to have her district restored under Section 5 of the Voters Rights Act, a section that SCOTUS just struck down. Correction: Although the above news story implies that SCOTUS struck down Section 5 of the VRA, they actually struck down Section 4. However, because Section 4 provides many of the legal definitions of the VRA, Section 5 is now dormant. Section 5 can be reactivated if a new, constitutionally acceptable version of Section 4 is implemented. However, withthe current Congress, that won't happen in the near future.
26The GOP is all heart: Can't afford school dinners? Let them starve - it'll be a teaching moment for the hungry kids.
26A game reviewer gives Grand Theft Auto V a 9/10 and mentions the depiction of women in it as a single negative point. Gamers start a petition to try and get her fired. Update: Man stabbed and robbed in London of Grand Theft Auto game [6]
26Spacetime and particle interactions may simply be a consequence of geometry. Admit it, you don't understand this either.
26Here's a scary poll: 98% of right-wingers and 84% of left-wingers in France want their Roma population (only 0.79% overall) to be deported. (It seems The Evil Jew stereotype has a new home.)
26Fucking no: Pro-gun group wants to make December 14th, 2013 "Guns Save Lives Day". Newtown, CT is not pleased.
26More U.S. politics. A House stenographer interrupts the budget vote to deliver a message about God and the Freemasons. Fox News tells us that's the Holy Ghost talking.
26Conservative Catholics are feeling left out now that their newfangled Pope is spending more time talking about love and charity and less time haranguing people about abortion.
26If you can't keep your election promises, Just delete them.
26Twenty years ago, Canuckstan came this close to imposing draconian abortion laws. (Bonus WTF: Conservative PM Brian Mulroney noted that a Cabinet committee made up of 19 men and 1 woman was probably not the best forum for a discussion on abortion policy. Duh?)
26Proof that not all Christians are hate filled homophobes
26Meanwhile in America, knocking on somebody's door continues to prove fatal.
26Pope Francis becomes the ultimate troll. Related: Seriously, bodyguards, man.
26In Turkey, a herbal pill called Homofin is now being marketed that claims to cure homosexuality.
26Former Reagan economist describes Minimum Wage as "Black Teenage Unemployment Act". Claims that it should be lowered to "$4 an Hour".
26In a legally binding decision, the German Supreme Administrative Court stated that post-Fukushima shutdowns of nuclear power plants, ordered without considering the opinion of the nuclear safety agency, were unlawful
26Judge strikes down Pennsylvania voter ID law, calls it burdensome.
26School field trip to the pool in Kent interrupted and the pool evacuated due to teachers spotting a paedophil--wait a minute, that's a prosthetic leg. (December 17 2013)
26Fusion successfully achieved, still with no net release of energy
26If it wasn't for conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxers measles could well have been eradicated from New Zealand
26Ted Nugent finally crosses the line. For everyone except Ted Cruz, that is.
26GOP candidates continue to reach out to minorities... oh... wait...
26Mississippi Sex Ed in 2014: You don't want to be a dirty peppermint pattie do you? Not realizing what the term "Peppermint Patty" means with respect to sex.
26Today in foreign policy: As Ukraine crisis talks begin in Geneva, Putin admits to lying about everything, this pamphlet is going around to Eastern Ukrainian Jews, and Edward Snowden gets pressed into service to shill. New: Jews are probably not being told to register
26The next time someone tells you that the cold and snowy winter they just went through proves that global warming is a hoax, kick him in the shins.
26An indie movie adaptation of Jack Chick's anti-roleplaying game comic Dark Dungeons has potential to be awesome.
26So much for the NRA's apparent moment of sanity.
26Senator Claire McCaskill punches Mehmet Oz in the face! (metaphorically)
26Remember a Chicago area Tea Bagger U.S. Representative named Joe Walsh who served in the previous (2011-12) Congress? He was one of the anti-Obama crowd who slept in his U.S. Capitol office in order to avoid paying rent for a Beltway apartment. He was also famous for being a family values candidate while owing $117,000 in back child support. Well, he just got kicked off of his own right-wing radio show for being too racist on the air.
26World's Richest Third-World Country decides cholera totally isn't a thing that ever happened, and if it did then the rich are in no danger from a large pool of poor people with diseases.
26And the next domino to fall is... Kentucky.
26Florida's gay marriage ban may be next on the chopping block. Make sure granny and grandpa have their heart medicine ready.
26I'm a Republican, repeal Obamacare! *uses ACA* Thanks... Obama?
26A new study published in Cognitive Science has found that young children exposed to religion may be less likely to be able to tell the difference between fantastic fiction and reality than their secular peers.
26First the individual mandate, second the religious exemptions on birth control, and so begins another effort in the courts to dismantle Obamacare — this time to cut off any subsidies for the very needy red states that didn't sign up for the state exchanges. (Check please.) Update: One thing's for sure: This is way too politically dangerous for Roberts to toy around with.
26Remember the negative ads about The Affordable Care Act and the crapload of money that was spent on those ads? What could possibly go wrong?
26Sarah Palin is going to have her own TV channel! And her web team will be run by former Onion employees. [No, not The Onion]
26The US Government was trolling UFO nuts for decades.
26Paleontologists have uncovered what they are calling Dreadnoughtus schrani, quite possibly the largest dinosaur discovered to date.
26Whatever else can be said of Uri Geller, he doesn't just give up.
26'Merikans continue to lose their shit over Ebola: Maine teacher put on leave, because she visited Dallas.
26"Not conducive to the public good" Julien Blanc not permitted UK visa.
26Ultra-conservative Arizona sues GM for $3 billion due to safety defects that are harming and killing Americans, supporting the American people for a change instead of corporations.
26House Republicans vote to "turn the EPA into a Trade Show." (Will be vetoed.)
26Being Black in Public claims another victim. He was "verbally challenging" the cop, so clearly summary execution was justified... provided the cop's name was Dredd and this was Mega City One... The cop claims to have felt a gun in his pocket, but no, he was unarmed, and it was actually a prescription medicine vial. The police account conflicts with what other witnesses say. What is it with all these black men who try to draw weapons they don't have?
26Farewell, Her Excellency The Rev. Sir Doctor Stephen Tyrone Mos Def Colbert, D.F.A., Heavyweight Champion of the World** La Première Dame de France.
26Little victories: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission convinces Adelaide court that Homeopathy Plus was being "misleading and deceptive" in their anti-vaxx, pro-homeopathy stance. A penalty hearing is scheduled for February 2015.
26So, that 1950s wave of UFO sightings, that kicked the UFO cult into high gear? Literally half of them were the CIA testing the U2 series.
26NAACP office bombed in Colorado Spring, no deaths or injuries to be reported.
26Chris Christie decides there's votes in dead children too. He slightly walks back his original embrace of "parental choice", but not so much you'd notice.
26Florida Man wants to convert artificial intelligences to Christianity. (Roko's basilisk should go for this one big time.)
26You know, just saying it was a poor choice of words would've gotten your point across just as well.
26A critical mass of nutters? Nigel Farage to join Sarah Palin at CPAC conference for US conservatives. Well, apparently the CPAC'ers didn't give much of a fuck about Farage.
26All-white Faux News team freak out over professor's "whiteness" course. Now Stormfront et al are issuing death threats to said professor.
26Meet Skeletorus and Sparklemuffin.
26In a story just now getting national attention, the Arkansas House of Representatives (controlled by small government-loving Republicans) voted on February 23 to require people employed to work with children to "friend" their bosses on social media so that their activities can be more easily tracked.
26Just how much more fucked up can a story get? Justin Harris (R-AR) and his wife first adopt two little girls, then rehomed them a year later (after first trying to return them to the Dept. of Human Services) in a house, where the older girl (6) was raped by her foster father. Now it turns out Harris performed exorcisms on the elder girl who "needed specialized care."
26‘You’re just a 10-foot-tall crybaby’. John Stossel defends secularism on Fox News.
26Iran appoints first female ambassador since the Islamic revolution. (This article also serves as a good overview of women's status in Iran today.)
26"Nepal hit by severe goat shortage".
25The Catholic Church is shocked to discover that it is not above the law. Meanwhile in Kentucky ...
25A doctor decides to 'treat' expectant mothers to prevent 'abnormal daughters' with an experimental drug.
25...and the universe is still here.
25"We've got to stand with our North Korean allies." Sarah Palin, political genius.
25If you can't shut idiotic birthers up, make money off them!
25George W. Bush's daughter, Barbara, backs same-sex marriage
25Audience member: "Who is going to shoot Obama?" GOP Congressman "Well, I know there's a lot of frustration with this president..."
25Leading Christian and Humanist organisations join forces to call bullshit on claims of unfair religious persecution.
25END OF AN ERA: Fidel Castro Resigns From Party Leadership And Calls For Liberalization.
25VISA, Mastercard and PayPal continue to shun Wikileaks, but you can use them just fine to donate to the Ku Klux Klan.
25In order to get away from inconvenient things like reality, supporters have started editing Wikipedia in order to make Palin's recent comments concerning Paul Revere "historically accurate." David Weigel, reporting on it, displays his sublime research skills by claiming that the Palin supporters added a sentence that actually dates to 2007.
25One down... Rebekah Brooks falls on her sword. And another - Les Hinton resigns. Update: Metropolitan Police chief quits.
25Rick Santorum to Google: "Fix your filthy search results for my name!!". Google: "Meh, fix it yourself".
25Steve Jobs dead. Apple's memorial.
25A Texas court refuses to grant a DNA test that could exonerate a death row inmate. At this point, Texas should just drop the pretense of being a civilized state concerned with administering justice and simply hold a lottery to determine which innocent person, whether or not he's a child or mentally retarded, to execute to more efficiently sate its bloodlust.
25Herman Cain: "I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out."
25So Virginia wants to pass a bill which would require ultrasounds before abortions, said bill now had a proposed amendment to include rectal exams for men getting erectile dysfunction meds.
25You are with us, or the child pornographers.
25The clown car of candidates skids round another bend, as Romney calls Santorum "too liberal."
25Everyone on me: Galactic facepalm.
25A Catholic priest forgets the golden rule of giving a Power Point presentation: Make sure the presentation is up, and your gay porn folder is properly closed before switching on the projector. (He remembered to ask the kiddies for their money, though.)
25North Korea finds out that it is rocket science.
25The dawn of a new space age? After Sunday's abort, SpaceX launches successfully Falcon9/Dragon towards the International Space Station (video). It's expected to be berthed with it before the end of the week.
25A pastor in West Virginia chugs strychnine and handles a rattlesnake in his service, pursuant to Mark 16:17-18. He, like his father before him, dies on the job, thus demonstrating that he was not a True Believer™.
25Holy crap. Mr. President, we suggest you stay away from Jesusland. (as if he wasn't already)
25The Internet, done right.
25The Cost of Same-Sex Marriage Bans
2565 percent of Americans say Obama better suited to handle alien invasion than Romney.
25Author and scientist, Jared Diamond, to Romney: "What the fuck are you talking about?"
25Democracy - Republicans are doing it wrong.
25Romney: You're going to make us lose the election! Akin: Nah, I'm going to stay around for as long as I want to.
25The South shall rise again!
25Mitt Romney, visiting Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Isaac, told a woman who was flooded out of her house that if she needed assistance, she should go home and dial 211 (community service). Then he asked Bobby Jindal where all that water came from.
25Muslim fanatics in Libya storm an U.S. consulate and murder an ambassador in revenge for somebody posting a movie on the Internet. What was the reaction of the Vatican representative in Libya? "What has happened is terrible, but we need to avoid offending the people's religious sensibility." Update: And Romney has proven again to be a total asshole., while thousands of Libyans prove they are not.
25How did Godlike Productions miss this conspiracy? Probably because it actually was one. An unsafe stadium put people’s lives at risk, incompetent police and ambulance service resulted in 96 deaths. What to do? Blame the victims: feed lies to the press and falsify evidence.
25Sorry Rushbo, meet the cold, hard punch of reality.
25Evangelical Christian spends a year undercover as a gay man. (Note: As always, don't even look at the goddamn comments.)
25Most Americans willing to admit to a total stranger that they don't like Black people.
25El Rushbo gets a head start on warming up the Republican persecution complex for the new term.
25Allen West is a sore loser
25CBO: TAX THE FUCKING RICH ALREADY.
25Not content with making his mistress have an abortion, pro-life Congressman Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) also convinced his ex-wife to have an abortion.
25Even Pat Robertson denies that the Earth is 6,000 years old.
25The GOP: Oh, you know, John Kerry's a pretty nice guy.
25The Grand Canyon may not be the age it has previously been thought to be - 5-6m years old. No, it's not 6,000 years old either. It may be 70m years old instead.
25The Sky at Night will never be the same, Sir Patrick Moore has died.
256,000 year old Earth? We have cheese older than that!
25US Marine proposes marriage at the White House. Why is this news? They're a gay couple.
25 Scientology - a criminal organisation?
25What the fuck has happened to you, Canada?
25"Legalising gay marriage will increase the crime rate", says Sensible Sentencing Trust spokesperson.
25Rick Santorum voices his hatred of higher education again, this time blaming its "indoctrination" for same-sex marriage, pornography, abortion and just general gawsh durn anti-Chrischun values.
25Oh, look. Another ex-gay activist who isn't as ex-gay as he claims.
25Lech Walesa, champion of human freedom disgusting homophobe.
25During a committee hearing, Joe Barton actually said the following for the record: "I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy."
25Good news: Same-sex marriage in Ireland is headed to referendum in 2014 after being cleared by the constitutional convention: 100 votes break down as 79 yes, 18 no, 1 abstain, 2 spoiled. Better news: said referendum looks set to be a landslide. The writing is on the wall, and it spells "Equality". (clip of in-house announcement here.)
25Two explosions at Boston marathon. Update: The NY Post brings the lies and islamophobia.
25Second bombing in a week in Iraq, with a death toll nine times higher than the Boston Marathon bombing
25In non-gun news, CERN has discovered atomic nuclei. It's a tricky situation to orange in the lab, but the peachy-keen scientists' mouths were agrape when the data came in. These puns are berry bad, I know.
25George Takei responds to anti-gay marriage protestors.
25Hollande signs France's same-sex marriage bill into law after the Constitutional Council decides that gay marriage does not violate the French constitution. The first gay-marriage is expected to be held on May 29th.
25The average sentence for a first time non-violent drug offender convicted under federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws is now longer than the average sentence for rape, child molestation, bank robbery, or manslaughter.
25"I think white British who have any concerns feel we can't speak freely," says an EDL supporter who lives in a country that has had only one non-WASP Prime Minister in 300 years and supposedly thinks mosques giving her tea and biscuits doesn't mean anything. (Also, good job Help for Heroes.)
25 How do you top having your children removed from your custody because you named them after (in)famous Nazis?You turn up at a custody hearing in a Nazi uniform of course!
25Derek Black, son of Don Black, renounces white nationalism.
25Oh Ayn, your cold "logic" is proven wrong yet again.
25Greece, you really need to cut this shit out. It isn't Godwin's Law, they literally are neo-Nazis.
25Sheriff Joe Arpaio needs to be (non-violently) removed from office immediately: Maricopa County deputies are to be armed with AR-15s 24/7 in response to one of his deputies being shot at home earlier this week. He had these on hand. HuffPo article: "I want all my deputies to be armed with the greatest firepower available 24 hours a day," Arpaio said. (We all know how this is going to turn out.)
25The head of the Alabama College Republicans will not be disciplined by her party for supporting same-sex marriage.
25 Aussie PM Kevin Rudd and the great same-sex marriage smackdown! Yowza!!
25Pat Robertson fails in his attempt to make his "gay AIDS ring" comments vanish from the internet.
25Now we're going somewhere: Pope Francis turns the iron law of institutions on its head, saying the Church will "fall like a house of cards" if it does not reform on gays and contraception.
25100 House Republicans are now willing to pass a clean CR. (One of two things are happening: The Orange Overlord is willing to wait until this becomes up to 2/3 of the caucus, or this will be his last moments as Speaker. Either way, the party's crumbling.) Update: What Obama should be telling the GOP: If you keep this shit up, guess who's coming baaack?
25What the actual fuck: In order to drive the point home at a drug awareness event, police conducted a simulated "raid" on some kids with a K-9 unit. They had the kids pocket "drugs" for the dogs to sniff out to demonstrate how effective enforcement is. Guess who needed to go to hospital? (Don't be fooled by the article, this is in Indiana.)
25George Zimmerman, arrested again. UPDATE: Standing his ground again
25Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, work on creating a modern democratic nation with respect for human rights is proceeding well.
25Scared you're losing the support of women? Voter ID laws will sort that problem out.
25Following the same-sex marriage court decisions in Utah, a Mormon man is now going on hunger strike.
25BNP leader Nick Griffin declares bankruptcy. (Financial, that is; the moral bankruptcy was long ago)
25In Britain, a Labour MP is introducing a bill to ban gay conversion therapy. And the usual nuts are getting pissy, which is a good sign.
25World Economic Forum: If we continue to ignore income inequality we're essentially fucking ourselves. Everyone else: Duh?
25Who would have thought it? Looser gun laws lead to more shootings.
25The code of the Voynich Manuscript may have been cracked. (Emphasis on the may.)
25The Earth might be more than 6000 years old after all
25United States of Socialist America!
25Kevin Trudeau is going on a 10-year vacation.
25Add Wyoming to the list of States where you don't want your children to be educated.
25Note to anti-vax parents: It's not fun to have your kid be the "last documented case" of a preventable disease in a modern state. On a brighter note, however: on March 27 India will become the most recent nation to be declared polio free! (As long as they keep the anti-vaxxers out, at any rate.)
25The ACLU: Damn we have the best legal jobs in the land. A bill that declares the Bible as Louisiana’s book of choice.
25Marionville, Missouri Mayor Dan Clevenger "kind of agreed" with anti-Semitic alleged killer Frazier Glenn Cross. And apparently nobody cared for years.
25The legalization of contraception (even for married people). The introduction of no-fault divorce laws. The striking down of anti-sodomy laws. And now, thanks to the advancement of gay rights and gay marriage, more laws (long overlooked) are being changed. Namely, laws in 21 US states that recognize only one type of adultery -- the 100 percent straight type. (It was 22 states, but the New Hampshire legislature just struck down their law, 268-29.)
25Fuck the death penalty. A total travesty of a "botched execution" in Oklahoma.
25Julia Gasper, who when she was with UKIP told gay people they needed to "stop complaining and start thanking straight people" for being born, is now with the even more pointless English Democrats party and reckons there's too many gay people in Parliament, and that organisers of Gay History Month have overstated the persecution of gay people in the Holocaust: "Move over, Anne Frank, we are the real victims." Lovely.
25The real Crimean referendum numbers accidentally get published: Only 50% voted for annexation out of a 30% turnout. Oops. (google-translation of original Russian page)
25Teachers at Roman Catholic schools in many parts of the USA must sign a contract promising to toe the Church's line on social and reproductive matters - even away from work.
25Three Mounties are killed, two others shot in Moncton, New Brunswick. Manhunt on for what appears to be the typical gun nut; city had zero homicides in 2012. Update: It's over. Bastard's in custody.
25Rapes happen accidentally, according to minister Ramsevak Paikra, responsible for law and order in India’s central Chhattisgarh state.
25Whooping Cough is now an epidemic in California. Thanks a lot anti-vaxxers!
25House GOP plan to sue Obama Administration over executive actions. (Well, if you want to prove to everyone that you're desperate, sure.)
25I'm sorry, Young-Earthers, did you say something? I couldn't hear you over the sound of a seventy thousand year old human settlement being discovered.
25Happy birthday, NASA, and congratulations, Opportunity rover!
25A House bill to congratulate Pope Francis on his election and deeds to date, looks likely to flounder, because Republicans think he's too liberal.
25The rootin', tootin', cowboy Rick Perry turns himself in.
25Well, so much for subtlety on Russia's part. Reports suggest that Russian troops are now directly aiding the separatists
25The CDC just nuked some of the more frequent MRA claims.
25Brooklyn man arrested under suspicion of threatening to decapitate Arab-Americans as retribution over recent executions.
25We're in the middle of the worst Ebola outbreak ever. Three guesses what the Republicans' knee-jerk response is, when the White House asks for more funding...
25This couple had to travel out of state to marry. One of them dies in a car accident. Do you think the mother of the deceased is gracious and accepting of her son? Eff no, she's fighting the widower every way she can, because Jesus: "I am a devout Christian and I am deeply disturbed that the death of my son David is being used by Dr. Paul Hard to advance the cause of same-sex marriage. I did not agree with all of the decisions that my son made, but I loved him very much and we always had a good relationship. It is wrong for David’s death to be used in this manner."
25Muslim Christian fundamentalist beheads a guy in the Islamic State Tulsa.
25A UK boy, 15 at the time admitted stabbing a teacher to death and planned more homicides. Fortunately guns aren't easy to get in the UK or there could have been a mass shooting.
25HIV is evolving - very publically, in a time scale that is readily understandable, to become somewhat milder.
25 Starting off the New Year, the man who helped inspire Viagra and the creator of the "Periodic Table Videos" have been knighted.
25South Dakota's ban on Marriage Equality is declared unconstitutional, as the bans of the deep south are under review as well
25New Charlie Hebdo cover revealed. Muhammad appears again.
25David Cameron: If we don't ban encrypted messaging apps like Snapchat, then we can't read your messages, and the terrorists win!
25King Tutankhamun's Burial Mask, the most famous archaeological relic in the world, has been "irreversibly damaged" during a botched cleaning attempt.
25Senate Republicans remove "civil rights" and "human rights" from subcommittee name, stating that the subcommittee would be a "watchdog against unconstitutional overreach and will hold the Obama Administration accountable for its actions." Long live the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights.
25SCOTUS refuses to extend stay of judicial ruling on same-sex marriages in Alabama, with only Tony and Tommy dissenting. Local politicians and judges all defer to the court's wisdom, and promise to read the Constitution and to abide by it in future (I made that last bit up).
258chan discovers that doxing a federal judge attracts attention.
25Well, he had a fancy flip chart, so there must have been truth in it when back in 2012 Netanyahu told the UN there was an imminent nuclear threat by Iran despite his own intelligence agency having told him something different.
25Ben Carson throws his hat into the ring. Update: Only makes it a few hours before his first gaffe apology after saying prisons prove homosexuality is a choice. "Because a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight -- and when they come out, they're gay," says Carson.
25Ted Cruz vows to repeal the non-existent federal legislation establishing Common Core.
25Rev. Creflo Dollar asks for upwards of 60 million dollars in donations for a new "Church" jet.
25The World still has a long way to go: The Japanese contestant for "Miss Universe" is being criticized for not being Japanese enough.
25Ted Cruz grew up listening to classic rock. 9/11 changed everything. He either likes country music, or country music makes him feel like a glass being yelled at by Ella Fitzgerald
25Last Week Tonight interviews Edward Snowden, and has him explain NSA surveillance via the only metaphor many Americans will actually understand: your naked pics. (Writeup.)
25Turns out non-violent garden-variety loons can be found among Western Muslims too - Islamic school principal in Australia bans girls from running sports in case they lose their virginity! (Also thinks ISIS is a plot by Western countries.)
24Nearly half of Detroit's workers are unemployed - Analysis shows reported jobless rate understates extent of problem Nothing witty here; vote up if you feel there is significance to bringing the plight of the one of the hardest hit communities of the Great Recession to light.
24Depressing news for Sarah Palin - no-one wants you to be President.
24The Texas GOP goes for a platform which we definitely couldn't have predicted (full PDF).
24Is a saboteur afoot at Fox News? Fox and Fiends breathlessly reported that Los Angeles will spend $1 billion (10,000 units at $100,000 each) for jetpacks that can go 63 miles per hour and soar to 8,000 feet. Gawker got a tip that the most likely source of this story is -- wait for it -- the Weekly World News! Laughing.gif
24Man Dressed As Jesus Kicked Out Of Church
24WikiLeaks supporters have launched "Operation Payback" against PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, the Swedish prosecutor's office, the Swiss bank that has frozen Julian Assange's accounts, and other targets.
24Hideous undead creature targets America's youth.
2460% of US biology teachers teach evolution "cautiously", 12% advocate creationism, and 40% "personally don't accept evolution", a survey finds. How to teach the teachers to teach? PS Even on Ars Technica, a tech/science website, the comments thread is madly depressing.
24What is it about religious people? They spend all their time moralising about how we live our lives whilst all the while beating and raping their families behind closed doors.
24Gabrielle Giffords is talking. (She asked for toast with her breakfast.)
24A Koran-burning ceremony by a tiny Florida church's "Pastor" ends up causing 11 UN staff to be brutally murdered in Afghanistan. The Pastor demands retribution for the killings. UPDATE: 5 more die, as the Pastor says, "I'm in no way responsible". Email to the Church's own website is failing due to overload, but the Pastor has another website with links to his Facebook page.
24Following a complaint from a parent, a teacher is admonished for proselytizing in class. The difference is that it took place in the Bible Belt, and it was a Christian parent who complained.
24Minnesota fundamentalists and Catholics alike celebrate their legislature "protecting" "traditional marriage" by passing a law putting a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage to the vote on the 2012 ballot. This isn't open political gamesmanship or bigotry laid bare. This is good old-fashioned Christian values at work. Motherfuckers.
24The production company behind Ben Stein’s ‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’ has a sequel to its intellectual bankruptcy: financial bankruptcy.
24Obama impersonator thrown off stage at a Republican meeting - Anthony Weiner jokes; fair game. Obama's race and Mitt Romney's Mormonism; a little near the knuckle. Michele Bachmann and the Tea Party; GET OFF!
24News of the World to publish its last issue on Sunday. (Rumours that The Sun intends to start publishing a new Sunday edition are entirely unfounded...)
24"Huge" blast strikes Oslo government buildings, including Norewegian Prime Minister's office. PM is reportedly unhurt, but no sources other than Twitter. EDIT Gunman dressed as a policeman opens fire on youth camp nearby, five 80 injured confirmed dead. No one has claimed responsibility yet. Total death toll of both the bombing and the shooting reaches 92.
24Fail of the Week: Remember the recent spate of high-profile right-wing, homophobic toe-tappers and Rentboy.com renters? Remember how some people marveled that conservative women weren't getting caught in similar situations? Meet Linda Wall, right-wing independent (because the GOP is too pinko commie for her tastes) candidate for the 59th District of the Virginia House of Delegates. In 2006, Ms. Wall reluctantly admitted to having a lesbian affair with a student while teaching P.E. at a junior high school. (In her deposition, she gave an incorrect name for the school). If it was the local junior high, we're talking about 13 to 15 year olds. If it's the local middle school, we're talking 11 to 13 year olds. Oh, and she also claims to be ex-gay.
24Rick Santorum, being on something of a roll today, attacks President Obama for not having policies that are based on the bible. Um, Ricky, you are aware of something called the separation of church and state aren't you? Hello? Ricky? Update: He's getting more insane every minute.
24Indiana resolution celebrating 100 years of the Girl Scouts opposed by Republican State Representative: "abundant evidence proves that the agenda of Planned Parenthood includes sexualizing young girls through the Girl Scouts, which is quickly becoming a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood".
24Ann Coulter on Sandra Fluke: "liberal women are only pretending to be offended by the word 'slut'.” Also, "As if her haircut isn't birth control enough." Stay classy America.
24Oregonians who use faith healing to "treat" their sick children are learning that the state means business when it comes to its new child abuse law that is aimed at curbing this psycho horseshit practice.
24A Taliban officer learns about the concept of wanted posters the hard way.
24Mitt Romney was, of course, a violent gaybasher at school. But it's okay! After initially denying it, he now says "if anybody was hurt by that or offended by that I apologize".
24Romney goes to a certain institution of -- AHEM! -- "higher learning" to deliver the commencement address. (BTW, he used the opportunity to double-down on his anti-gay marriage stance. It's a one-liner about halfway through the speech which you can read here.) Since LU was founded by Jerry Falwell, it should come as no surprise that it is so fundamentalist Christian that the curricula of two required courses teach that Mormonism is a cult. And many of the students believe that so whole-heartedly that they remain pissed off that the school invited a cultist to deliver the speech even after Jerry Junior told them weeks ago to get over it.
24Alexander Aan, the Indonesian atheist who made the "God does not exist" post on Facebook, sentenced to 2½ years imprisonment for blasphemy.
24So you lost both your legs in combat? According to Joe Walsh, "You ain't a true hero if you talk about it."
24...and El Rushbo has achieved full insanity. Update: Oh dear God, Rush is right!
24Would you like bigots with that, Mike Huckabee?
24Romney has already begun a diplomatic incident and he's not even President. David Cameron: "We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities anywhere in the world. Of course it’s easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere." Update: Holy fuck. Boris Johnson.
24Bryan Fischer compares children of gay parents to slaves needing to be saved
24America is utterly, utterly doomed. 'Clean energy, he said, “would slow the winds down”.'
24They still don't get it, do they? "Father Benedict Groeschel, American Friar, Claims Teens Seduce Priests In Some Sex Abuse Cases."
24Clint Eastwood just upstaged Rick Perry in the stupidest grouping of words ever made. Update: All praise the Invisible President.
24Welcome to the 21st century, Canada.
24Say what you will about Julia Gillard, but watch her give a public spanking to Tony Abbott.
24Teen Pakistani Christian girl cleared of blasphemy charges.
24"We need to stop insulting the intelligence of the voters," said creationist, eugenicist and former exorcist Bobby Jindal.
24Republicans are backing out of Grover Norquist's suicide pact.
24UN grants Palestine non-member observer state status. Also, Canada takes several steps backwards as its leadership decides to be on the wrong side of history.
24"Strike me down, and I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
24Aurora, Colorado experiences its second multiple-fatality shooting in less than a year.
24Irony meters out! NRA releases shooting video game for 4-year-olds. Update: Age rating changed to 12-and-up after the game was published.
24Justin Bieber's mom set to produce a pro-life film extolling the virtues of not aborting her pregnancy. Let's...just not say anything about that.
24The good people of Nottinghamshire show their class and decorum by abstaining from using flaming sacks of feces, and instead use crosses wrapped in ham to drive Muslims out.
24In Arizona, convicted felons cannot legally carry firearms (with certain exceptions). But join Boss Hogg's Maricopa posse and as long as you weren't convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony in the last 12 months, mount up, podner!
24Mississippi finally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment thanks to Steven Spielberg.[No, not The Onion]
24Obama administration to the Supreme Court on Prop H8: "the exclusion of gay and lesbian couples from marriage does not substantially further any important governmental interest. Proposition 8 thus violates equal protection."
24Explain this, YECs. 80,000-year-old grove of Aspen trees in Utah is a single vast root structure that clones itself, making it likely the oldest living organism. It may be even older. It's also the heaviest, with conservative estimates putting it at 13 million pounds.
24Another preacher caught diddling an underage member of his flock, this time "because Jesus wanted them to have sex."
24Someone follows terrible advice from Dr. Oz, sues him for injuries sustained.
24And from the air came water.
24Tennessee lawmakers reassured that mop sink isn’t sink for Muslims to wash feet[No, not The Onion]
24Sometimes your faith in humanity is rekindled (Anyone got that pic of Muslims protecting Christians in Egypt?)
24The FBI has released images of Marathon suspects Update: It appears Boston Police have killed the first suspect after a firefight and explosions at MIT and Watertown. Update II: The entirety of Boston is shut down. Update III: Lockdown lifted, manhunt continues.
24The price of our cheap clothing.
24Time to write an article on Lamar "I Don't Understand the Nature of Research Grants" Smith.
24Diary of Anne Frank "too pornographic" for middle school students.
24Wal-Mart security called the cops on a white guy because they suspected he'd kidnapped the three young black girls with him. Someone remind Potomac Mills, Virginia that interracial marriages areallowed in 2013.
24Nick Griffin never misses an opportunity to show why he's a pus-filled bubo on the face of humanity.
24A global disgrace.
24Tory rebels: "Damn, we didn't get a majority in the last election. I know, let's introducea raft of bills that show how right-wing we can be! That'll work!"
24SCOTUS Clusterfuck 2013 (Part #2): 5-4 decision (conservative majority) invalidates a crucial portion of the Voting Rights Act, and permits (unless Congress intervenes) The South a carte blanche to gerrymander on race and pass voter ID laws.(More details) Update: Texas is already going ahead. Fucking cunts.
24And this, students, is when Texas became a purple state. Meanwhile: North Carolina shows Texas what finesse is: No hope for your anti-woman bill? No problem, jam it up the ass of a motorcycle safety bill at the last second without telling anyone until everyone's already got their voting hat out, and done.
24Satanists hold a pink mass (same sex marriage for two couples, one gay and onelesbian) at Fred Phelps' mother's grave and proclaim that they have made her gay in the afterlife in a manner similar to the way Mormons baptize the dead.
24Struggling to get ISPs to go along with blocking porn, the government has tried to coax them intoa deception worthy of Conservapedia, according to a letter leaked to the BBC. In short, they wanted ISPs to change the porn blocking prompt so they could weasel word a triumph and the Daily Mail could announce victory. would you look at that.
24What stunts the development and maturity of a crack baby? you a guess: it isn't crack.
24Kenyan lawyer tries to sue Italy and Israel for "human rights violations" 2000 years ago and petitions International Court of Justice to "declare that the trial of Jesus and the subsequent nailing on the cross went against the principles of fair trial and should therefore be declared a mistrial."
24Reason not to hack under influence of rage: NASA got whacked by Brazilian hacktivist who wants to stop NSA.
24Even the head of a Christian research firm that found that 35% of all Americans and 48% American evangelicals believe that mental illness can be overcome with prayer and bible study alone was surprised by the findings. "I would say that if your leg is broken, you're going to believe in prayer, you're going to believe in scripture, but you're probably also going to have some medical intervention," he said.
24It's time. The Senate will vote first, House of Representatives second - let's see how fractured the Republican caucus has become. Update: The farce has ended. Let's meet back on January 15. Addendum: Look at Montana, Arkansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Kentucky and West Virginia.
24It's raining stupidity! A House Republican voted against raising the debt ceiling because he thought the bill was funding Joseph Kony.
24They took my honey! It's the apocalypse!
24Missed a school field trip to a multicultural workshop that explores various religions? You're a racist and it's going on your school record. UPDATE: nutters and loonies have turned this into an Islam issue.
24Legal appeal by British B&B owners who denied gay couple a double room fails at UK Supreme Court. (As everyone but them and the Christian Institute knew it would.) UPDATE: The Christian Institute's 'reasoned' response
24Bitcoin's value is halved as China further restricts its use.
24Former Arizona Sheriff rallies citizens to oppose same-sex marriage in Utah. Claims that homosexuals are shoving their agenda down our throats.
24Study shows surges in preventable diseases due to anti-vaccination movements
24Dinesh D'Souza has been indicted for violating federal election laws. Reuters didn't know the identity of the candidate at first, but now they do.
24Apparently letting kids play like kids improves their behavior. Who'dathunkit??
24 Having gay parents is not actually a problem for the kids involved. It's a shame more supposed-adults can't accept the concept.
24Seems mankind was leaving footprints in the UK 801,654 years before the Flood.
24Japan's nationalist love-in is getting even more terrifying.
24Today's right-wing government move against democracy in order to better secure re-election when public opinion is against them is brought to you by... Canada?
24So Rand Paul sues Obama over NSA spying. Too bad he can't even do that without plagiarizing the contents.
24Anders Breivik threatens to go on hunger strike unless he gets to have a Playstation 3 in prison (currently, he has to make do with a PS2)
24Rick Perry, here is America the Free. Update: The Silent Majority is with you, sir!
24Apple, Inc. to climate change deniers: fuck off. (Of course, it was probably the Comic Sans that really annoyed Tim Cook.)
24Since 2011, Phoenix area cops have been arresting "lawfully detaining" sex workers and taking them to a local church where they are given the ultimatum of prison time or time in a church-run diversion program. And no they aren't allowed to meet with defense council first.
24Such exchange. So crash. Very panic. Wow.
24Crimea votes overwhelmingly to join the Russian Federation. (Putin's got some decisions to make.) Update: He's ignoring the referendum. Update #2: Oh wait, now he's recognizing it.
24To all them freedom lovin' folks in Georgia: Don't even think of trying to feign shock when the inevitable happens.
24In Florida, the Miami-Dade County Elections Department decides that waiting in line for hours to vote isn't restrictive enough, and thus will close all the bathrooms at polling places. Obviously, if you can't hold it, you're just not fit to participate in democracy. Update: It appears this may have been a matter of misinterpretation.
243 shot and killed in a Kansas Jewish community center the day before Passover, perpetrator appears to be a Neo-Nazi in his 70s. Update: This is the wanker.
24Interesting: The CIA appears to have misled Dubya himself on enhanced interrogation techniques that "failed to produce valuable intelligence" and "[was] brutal and far worse than the agency communicated to policymakers." (Full document still undergoing declassification.)
24The continuing emergence of the welfare rancher state.
24 Bring on the comet, baby! Update: Meanwhile, Japan may be seriously considering opening its borders.
24It's official: The era of the gas-guzzler is ending.
24Meet the post-Rick Perry Republican Party of Texas.
24UK Muslim extremists have been taking over schools intimidating head teachers and staff in those schools extremism was taught and girls faced discrimination.
24Canadian city asks provincial and federal governments to ban fetus-porn pro-life ads.
24I am shocked, SHOCKED to discover insider trading in this economy.
24OK gun range owner insists howitzer fired safely after shell blasts house 3 miles away
24Japan renounces pacifism, which won't have any domestic or foreign policy consequences at all.
24The Occupy movement is still not dead - and it's manifested in a massive protest by Hong Kong citizens against the Chinese government.
24Kevin Martin threatens Facebook with a lawsuit and a personal visit after it takes down several of his pages.
24"Everyone is still focused on the Gaza crisis, Mr. President." "All right, sectoral sanctions on Russia." (BP and ExxonMobil: NOOOOOO) Update: Also, because this question seriously needs to be asked: "Can I still sell an AK?"
24Rand Paul tells the Urban League that he's a minority, due to his ideology.
24State Senator Alan Hays wants to mandate the showing of Dinesh D'Souza's latest masterpiece in Florida history classes.
24South Africa refuses Dalai Lama visa for Nobel summit for the third time in five years, under pretext of not making China pissy. China says, "Thanks!"
24A gay kid harassed and bullied by his Catholic school in Bogotá, Colombia takes his life. Bullying includes the school stealing his phone, where they discovered some "boy kiss boy" (no more naughty than that) pictures.
24Scottish referendum results: Not a single constituency announced and Alex Salmond is already cancelling his appearances. Update: The evil BBC is calling it — Scotland will not separate from the United Kingdom. (Time to save the union.). Update II: Salmond resigns.
24Dead baby was not protected from whooping cough by vaccine Another notch on Andrew Wakefield's tally.
24Two dead, four wounded in yet another school shooting in the U.S.
24Kim Tinkham, who in 2007 stated on Oprah that she was using an alt-medicine program based on The Secret to treat her cancer... has died of said cancer (4 years ago).
24Bob Jones University slammed over its handling of sexual abuse incidents in report by a Christian organization they contracted.
24Hopefully this is the last we'll ever hear of Andrew Wakefield.
24You just can't start early enough to find out potential terrorists.
24Meanwhile, winning the award for fewest fucks given, Charlie Hebdo's next cover features Muhammad holding a "Je suis Charlie" sign. Also considers a run of three five million copies.
24Dianne Feinstein denounces Republican attempt to claw back copies of CIA torture report
24Bakery facing religious discrimination complaint for refusing to make anti-gay cake, despite offering a workaround.
24A simple graph shows the increasing effect of vaccine denial.
24Welp. Jeb Bush basically inadvertently doxxed a whole bunch of people. Whoops. (No actual personal information in article)
24Blaming "teenage risk taking" for crime rates among youth don't make quite as much sense when poverty rates are factored in
24Great-grandaddy galaxies rediscovered.
24Indiana Republican governor Mike Pence signs Religious Freedom Bill into law.
24For once, health professionals get the credit they deserve, as British medic cured of Ebola.
24And here we go again. Man somehow has spine severed by police while being arrested "without force or incident".
24The FBI admits to using flawed hair analysis for decades. Meanwhile, Americans who support the death penalty are unconcerned if innocent people are killed.
23Westboro Baptist Church decides to visit Iraq to protest ISIS.
23Domestic terror attack in Austin yesterday, so what does every major "news" outlet cover today?
23Sarah Palin proposes a solution to the Gulf oil disaster. Brace yourself - it's a doozy. Update - PZ reports that Robert Adley has the same idea
23Welcome to Colorado Springs, America's preeminent right wing and/or libertarian haven! Home of Focus on the Family! Do you hate taxes and government? Well, then, you've found a new paradise in our community of a half-million people! Just this year we've driven down government costs by turning off one-third of the streetlights, putting a hiring freeze on new cops and firefighters, putting our police helicopters for sale on the internet, discontinuing in-person burglary investigations, stopping the maintenance public lawns and parks, closing public swimming pools and recreation centers, and much more! Oh, and since we've also cut back on police beat patrols, we've mandated recruited taxi cab drivers to report suspicious activities. And just to make sure there's no mistake about this, we've marked every taxi cab serving the city with a big sticker that reads "C.O.P.S." (Cabbies-On-Patrol Service).
23Least accurate use of the word "most" ever: Barking lunatic, conspiracy theorist, and President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells UN Assembly "most people" believe the US was behind the 9/11 attacks.
23Government by the rich, damned by birth to an incapacity to do anything to help the poor. Half of Congress are millionaires.
23Comic legend Leslie Nielsen dies. Surely he will be missed.
23A lesson in double standards. White actor plays black character: Racist to do it. Black actor plays white character: Racist to criticize it.
23Be careful of what you wish for, birther edition: Hawaii's new governor was a friend of President Obama's parents when they were in college. He's so pissed off by the birthers' claims that he wants to amend state law so that Obama's birth certificate can be shown to the public.
23University College London MRI study: Righties have larger amygdalas (the "lizard brain"); lefties have larger anterior cingulate cortices (the connector of the brain's two hemispheres.) You can thank actor Colin Firth, who commissioned the study as a joke while appearing as a guest editor on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme. (As one lefty blogger puts it: "I might have a problem with evolution if it left me behind, too.")
23Americans: not as religious as they say they are (and neither is anybody else, judging by these figures).
23Egyptian Christians are protecting Muslims while they're at prayer.
23Guy Who Made Up WMD Story For Iraq Invasion Admits He Made It Up. "Maybe I was right, maybe I was not right," said Curveball. "They gave me this chance. I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime."
23Inconsiderate jerk erects 24 foot tall, illuminated, cross on his front lawn and is told to take it down. It's an attack on Christianity!
23Scientist at NASA claims he has found evidence of alien life on a meteorite. "No other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting," he says. Warns another NASA scientist: "It’s an extraordinary claim, and thus I’ll need extraordinary evidence." Update: Not three days later, NASA disavows the findings, in part applying Occam's razor: "Just because it looks as though the holes were made by bacteria doesn't make them fossils of extraterrestrial microbes."
23Democracy in action, GOP style: Wisconsin's Senate Majority leader refuses to count the votes of Democratic senators.
23Union supporters to Tea Party: Our rally is bigger than your rally.
23How's this for political correctness? The governor of Maine feels that murals depicting labor unions in the lobby of the Department of Labor are insensitive to business owners.
23Fox News's Washington managing editor Bill Sammon: 'Before the election I went on the air and speculated that Barack Obama is a Socialist even though I did not believe that.'
23Democrats in Wisconsin have enough signatures to force a recall election for the first of eight Senate Republicans.
23"We must have universal healthcare, I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by healthcare expenses." Thus spake new darling of the teabagger movement, Donald Trump, in his Jan 2000 book The America We Deserve.
23Some high-school students, being dismayed at the impending change in status for some classes that taught them "how to take part in a democratic pro­cess," display precisely how well they absorbed that knowledge by storming a school board meeting and declaring themselves the new school board.
23A Hasidic paper refuses to print pictures of women, so it shops Hillary Clinton out of the situation room. Why aren't the conservatives protesting about creeping Halakha law?
23Creationist bill stymied in Louisiana.
23Senate GOP leader on why accused terrorists should not be tried in civilian courts: The jury might not find them guilty.
23The Sarah Palin feature film debuts to empty theaters. (Must be those Harry Potter-lovin' surrender monkey ushers.)
23The defeat of Flood Geology... by Flood Geology.
23A collection of OWS protest signs. See #22 and 48. Update: Check this one out.
23Fertilized eggs are not people in Mississippi.
23Any fool knows that Fox News is worse than any other news source out there. But did you know it's worse than paying no attention to the news at all?
23In a mere 19 words Rick Perry makes two major gaffes.
23Scientists create a multicellular variety of Brewer's Yeast in the laboratory. The Question Evolution! Campaign could not be reached for comment
23Sorry, no faster-than-light neutrinos for you!
23Santorum thinks it was wrong to apologize for Koran burnings, because it was not intentional. So if anyone ever accidentally hits the Senator with their car, remember that apologizing would be completely improper.
23If you want a vision of the future, imagine a privately owned boot voluntarily stamping on a human face - forever.
23Now it's official: Watching Fox News can be bad for your health, and may even lead to your death.
23Not from The Onion: Birthers want proof that Mitt Romney was born in America
23Mitt Romney: Obama wants to establish a hair color called "bald".
23Germany bans the cutting of foreskin on religious grounds, pissing off Jews and Muslims alike. And so begins the "War on Circumcision!" :)
23Climate change? So far this year 23,283 daily high temperature records have been set across the US. Up 71% from last year.
2311% of Americans still are really fucking stupid believe Obama is a Muslim.
23Once more, Michigan bans women from talking about issues relating to women Shut up you WOMAN!!! Go home and have a period or something
23Wholesome family values at work: Three-year-old Tripp Palin calls Bristol a "faggot" for not taking him to the swimming pool. On camera.
23The right to bear arms... could include handheld rocket launchers.
23Remember Mitt Romney's recent gaffe in London? How it was an "isolated incident"? God dammit, Romney.
23IKEA's Saudi version of its website has identical pictures to editions for other countries - with one exception.
23Oh God, it's like the old Simpsons skit again.
23The Occupy movement is helping with Hurricane Sandy relief efforts
23The genius who brought the world UnSkewedPolls.com is back. With the same eye for accuracy, he proves that Barack Obama won Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida through voter fraud.
23English Defence League leader Stephen Lennon jailed... for a passport offence. Oh, the delicious irony.
23Fox News viewers, fed up of having been lied to about who was going to win the election, vote with their remotes.
23At least it's not the Bible in schools: a new bill would require all Idaho kids to read Atlas Shrugged in school. UPDATE: Bill fails.
23The Family Research Council takes a little break from hating gays to hating everyone who has premarital sex.
23The ricin letter charges against Elvis impersonator and conspiracy theorist Paul Curtis have been dropped.
23Bonkers UK councillor hopeful says feminism is evil, gay rights activists are termites, education should be about obedience, and strenous physical activity prevents gayness. Considering he clearly hasn't been watching gay porn, I think we can rule out Haggard's Law this time. Good luck in the election tomorrow, champ! UPDATE Tough luck, old chap.
23Laugh-inducing hypocrisy thy name is Wayne LaPierre.
23Meet Saudi Arabia's first female lawyer.
23400 ppm.
23Today in WIGO:Rob Ford, embarrassing Mayor of Toronto, documented liar, and alleged crack user:He just got told (PDF) over his potential destruction of records, the Toronto Star says Ford knew where the video was (chalk up one more lie if true), and reports of the various goings-on in and around the Mayor's Office this year, if true, make Rob's denials ring quite hollow.
23Today's "toddlers getting ahold of guns" shooting tragedy is brought to you by Arizona, where afour-year-old accidentally shot his father to death while they visited a friend after the boy found an unsecured, loaded gun in the living room.
23Now that Exodus International has shut down and has offered a blanket apology to the LGBT community, will they offer individual apologies to their former clients/victims? They might start with the former client who was told by one of their acolytes that his epileptic son died because he (the father) is gay.
23Not content to see the Catholics have all the fun, a Sydneyrabbi in charge of a local yeshiva says the police shouldn't investigate an alleged paedophile who taught there because that would "open a can of worms." Besides, he claims that the boys (one of whom was 11 at the time) may have consented to having sex.
23The top ten most facepalm-inducing perceptions British public gets wrong
23George Zimmerman walks free. Whether this constitutes as evidence of a working justice system is left as exercise for the readers.
23Of course, the fact that North Korea need containers full of sugar would be a red flag itself.
23Free electricity for the poor!
23This is how anti-government rhetoric in the United States has gone down to.
23US fast food homophobia response: "If you don't like us, don't go here, commies!"
Canadian fast food homophobia response: "Sorry, we'll stop being douchebags." "Don't worry, eh?"
23FBI is reviewing forensic evidence in 27 death penalty convictions.
23 Pope Francis makes all Vatican residents and employees subject to 12 years in prison for committing acts of "sexual violence" including paedophilia. He also made it a crime for those same residents and employees to "leak or receive confidential information or documentation" with a penalty of "six months to two years in prison and a €2,000 euro ($2,500) fine; the penalty goes up to eight years in prison if the material concerns the "fundamental interests" of the Holy See or its diplomatic relations to outsiders."
23Desmond Tutu would rather go to Hell than worship a homophobic God.
23Department of Justice to adopt a more lenient policy in prosecuting drug users.
23Guns don't shoot people. Gun safety instructors shoot people.
23RNC has a hissy fit, boycotts debates on CNN, NBC, due to Hillary documentaries. (Actual reason: to keep their batshit insane candidates from frightening voters.)
23The International Olympic Committee agrees with Putin. Apparently, saying that you love your gay friend or relative, or hell, even just being gay is "a demonstration of political propaganda" under rule 50 of the Olympic Charter. How this meshes with rule 6, "Act against any form of discrimination affecting the Olympic Movement" is anyone's guess.
23NJ Court: Texting to driver can make you liable if it causes him to crash. How the **** would you know whether whoever you are texting to is driving?
23A white supremacist felon was (accidentally) discovered to have 18 guns, 45,000 bullets, and a list of Black and Jewish leaders.[7]
23So, can you guess how many Americans think that the situation with Syria is linked to the coming of Armageddon? If you guessed one out of three, you're correct. (Now guess how many people from the rest of the world would say "only a third?")
23It's MPAA/RIAA's turn to play indoctrinate your children!
23Several Arab League nations are working on an anti-blasphemy bill. If passed, "all forms of defamation, derision or denigration of religions and prophets will be considered crimes." But it also "gives every state the right to put on trial those who abuse and hold in contempt religions even if they are outside the country."
23The ALF appears to still have no clue about how ecosystems work.
23Tea Party crazy boys, Ken Cuccinelli & EW Jackson get their asses handed to them by the Virginia electorate. Cue wails of "voter fraud!" any minute now.
23Pray you're not black and lost in Dearborn Heights.
23"The cyber attack will remain a serious threat to our national security." Your inability to control yourselves seems to be the larger problem.
23The NSA has declined to comment on Senator Bernie Sanders's request to know if he is being spied on, arguing that responding would violate his privacy. Seriously.
23Vladimir Putin Warns Gay Olympic Visitors To "Leave Children Alone."
23Fmr. VA Governor indicted for taking gifts to shill for a drug company that has been caught lying about its health claims.
23So much for this discussion: A Texas hospital thinks that keeping a brain-dead woman on life support to sustain a deformed fetus is something that Gawd would want.
23Northern Cyprus gets ready to enter the 20th 21st century.
23An online poll asked who won the great debate. The results: 92 percent of respondents give Bill Nye the victory. And which website conducted the poll? Christianity Today!!! An evangelical website called Christian Today, presumably so-named to cash in on the popularity of Christianity Today, but which based on its design elements has more in common with the Christian Post.
23Head of the Mormon Church, summoned to appear before UK court, to defend claims that the organisation's teaching amounts to "fraud."
23Hindu fundamentalists succeed in getting a book banned in India.
23The film Juno became a hub for the Religious Right by presenting a teenager who exercised her choice not to have an abortion. For the second time in two years, watch in schadenfreude as they frown.
23Facebook clamps down on people using the site for illegal gun sales
23Free State Project interlopers are causing civil disturbances as they attempt to take over New Hampshire. All in the name of freedom, of course.
23There may be as much water trapped deep in the earth as there is in all the world's oceans. We can't wait for the Hydroplate theory crowd to start up.
23Who is Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's new pick for finance minister? A guy who claims that global warming is "exaggerated" and who said that aboriginal people would benefit from pipelines run through their "socially dysfunctional" communities.
23A plurality of surveyed economists agree that raising the minimum wage is a good thing. Only 14% disagree.
23Another Sovereign citizen is going to do jail time. This one's a former child star.
23Oh shit! Gerry Adams has been arrested over the 1972 IRA murder of Jean McConville.
23Oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the UK has been going for 10,000 years. What price the 6,000 year old earth now?
23Relevant to our interests: 8-legged goat born.
23A New York City minister has agreed to repay $1.2 million after taking funds raised by the church to benefit 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina victims and spending it on a BMW and a new house for his family.
23Prosecutors knowingly sent innocent man to prison for 25 years The victim is African American, is that relevant? Prosecutors are judged for securing convictions, not for securing justice.
23SpaceX unveils the human-carrying version of their Dragon capsule. Now they only need to actually fly it... Update: Some more shiny pictures.
23Tomorrow could be one the EPA's most important moments. Update: Not a bad start.
23What time is it? Campus shooting time, again! (It appears that the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with... pepper spray.)
23New NSA leak: "Among the most valuable contents — which The Post will not describe in detail, to avoid interfering with ongoing operations — are fresh revelations about a secret overseas nuclear project, double-dealing by an ostensible ally, a military calamity that befell an unfriendly power..." Say whaaaat?
23Gov. Brownback proposes doubling down on his fiscally disastrous policy of tax cuts.
23The Raelian movement tried to encourage removing the stigma associated with the swastika by putting it on an airplane banner, superimposed onto a Star of David, and sending it over a number of NY beaches. Unsurprisingly, it really doesn't fly with locals.
23A mysterious 100-meter wide crater has appeared in the Russian Arctic.
23Alabama : EPA regulations are against God's Will. Update : Pray for the coal plants!
23@Armenia #ThisIsWar #MakeUMyBitch #BombsAway #Azerbaijan
23Vermont plans to scale down the War on Drugs. They also plan to implement a single-payer healthcare system by 2017. We could say they're the liberal's version of Texas.
23It's life Jim, but not as we know it.
23Dinesh D'Souza sentenced to probation and light custody. Oh, and do beware the comments section of that page; talk of re-education camps and Obamablame abound. (This may be relevant.)
23SCOTUS, 2013: Oh, s.5 of the Voting Rights Act is unnecessary. No conservative-led state is going to blatantly try discriminating against minorities in the polls anymore.
SCOTUS, 2014: Oh shit.
23Lord Freud, British welfare reform minister, declares: "some disabled people ‘not worth’ minimum wage".
23Meanwhile, in Europe: Polish holocaust denier and MEP Robert Iwaszkiewicz petitions to join Nigel Farage's EFDD voting block to secure additional EU funding.
23South Carolina becomes the next Homogay™ domino to fall.
23The Plague is enveloping Madagascar. If it's anything like the Ebola reaction, expect Nigerians to be treated with misplaced suspicion.
23Relevant to our interests: Swedish Christmas Goat built again this year. Last year it was burned down for the 27th time. Live feed here.
23Not-So-Complementary Medicine: A recent Australian study has indicated that many alternative therapies can reduce or compromise the effectiveness of concurrent chemotherapy or conventional cancer treatment.
23Richard Dawkins apparently had not heard about the men's rights movement.
23Ohio town REALLY isn't into zombie Jesus.
23The dumbest man in Congress is named "Legislator of the Year" by Texan judges.
23The American Family Association has fired Bryan Fischer for comments regarding teh gayz and Nazi Germany (Update: but only "as a spokesperson and director of issues analysis", he still will host his AFA talk show).
23Unless you're getting your vaccines prenatally, they're not causing autism.
23Faced with the highest poverty rate, 2nd highest school drop-out and teen pregnancy rates, Mississippi lawmakers spring into action... and declare churches exempt from commercial driving licence requirements.
23The leader of UKIP's LGBT group has quit "due to disillusionment of policy direction and dissatisfaction at the failure of the leadership to set a gay-friendly tone".
23How hypothetical life without liquid water might work
23How are some relatives of Coptic Christians (with the concurrence of Franklin Graham) reacting to the recent mass beheadings by ISIS? By thanking them for starting the Apocalypse.
23Count down to the religious right doing their nut in 3... 2...
23Maybe, just maybe, if you don't use the N-word when you say "some of my best friends have been niggers." people won't pay as much attention to whatever you have been plotting.
23Validation of Skarka's Law by frat members, part 2: Defending taking naked pictures of passed-out women without their consent.
23Mississippi passes the "Jesus Take The Wheel" bill, in an apparent attempt to kill off church congregations by letting them use actually-unqualified bus drivers. 'Cos not knowing how to drive a several-ton misguided missile is just fine if God is on your side!
23A Canadian Conservative MP quits the party to sit as an independent in order to speak freely about his creationist beliefs
23Putin and Le Pen sitting in a tree...
23Rand Paul: now running for president.
23Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said to be in a critical condition following an airstrike.
22In Limbaugh Land, all the kids who will go hungry this summer without school lunches are walking right by their overstocking fridges and cupboards overflowing with Twinkies!
22Know what's bad? Performing surgery on a baby's naughty bits so they'll be "normal." Know what's worse? Molesting them afterwards..
22Woman has consensual sex with man. Finds out he is not one of the Chosen People. Realises she was actually raped.
22Who knows the most about religion - we Atheists do!
22One of the right wingers elected to the next Congress is an anesthesiologist who vowed during the campaign to repeal the new health care law. (No doubt "Obamacare" -- or is it "Pelosicare"? -- would cut into his salary.) During an orientation meeting, the newcomers were informed that their publicly funded Congressional health care package won't kick in until 28 days after they are sworn in. Can you guess what his reaction was to that bit of information? Fortunately for him, the COBRA law -- which his party has also recently used as a political football -- will allow him to keep his current health care benefits until his new coverage takes effect.
22Southern Poverty Law Center has named American Family Association and Family Research Council as hate groups.
22Republican Steve King: "Hey, kindergarteners! What do you think about abortion?"
22Alabama Governor-elect makes a stirring speech saying that all Alabamans, black and white, should love and care for each other. But non-Christians can fuck off.
22A female polar bear lost her yearling cub and one-fifth of her body weight swimming 400 miles over 9 days looking for ice that had not melted due to climate change.
22In Egypt, the forced shut down of Al Jazeera demonstrates that "the repressive powers of central government are still functioning." Who knows? Maybe somebody will point out that nearly every American cable company has blacked out Al Jazeera for years, demonstrating that the repressive powers of monopolistic corporations are still functioning.
22Atheists raise over $3 million to help alleviate poverty.
22WikiLeaks is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian Politician Snorre Valen.
22UK spent foreign aid money to bring Joe Ratzenberger for a visit.
22I'm an upstanding member of a political party that's fully committed to family values. So... fancy an extra-marital affair? Update: He's resigning from Congress.
22Texas proposes a $10,000 fine for hiring an illegal immigrant... unless it's your maid.
22Death penalty banned in Illinois; all death row inmates' sentences commuted to life without parole.
22Tennessee birther legislator: "I'm not sure what a 'long form birth certificate' is, but I want Obama to provide one!"
22Taxed Enough Already? The GOP want to tax you MORE!
22One of the anti-union Wisconsin Republicans is so popular even his own wife and maid are supporting his recall, but he's too busy shacking up with his mistress to care.
22UN approves no-fly zone in Libya. Update: France and the U.S. begin strikes.
22Stop the discrimination and persecution of Creationists! A Texas lawmaker defends his bill to ban discrimination against Intelligent Design.
22Virgil Peck (R) of Kansas gains the ire of everyone by stating, after an idea to shoot feral hogs from helicopters, "If shooting these immigrating feral hogs works, maybe we have found a [solution] to our illegal immigration problem." 54,000 signatures for his resignation have already been collected.
22Honestly, this is a WIGO:World thing, not WIGO:Clog or Blog... Donald Trump has hired people to look into Obama's citizenship. Honestly. Click the link.
22Over half of the students at Blue Mountain School, a private school in Virginia, have contracted Pertussis (whooping cough) due to the school's policy of allowing for religious exemptions to common vaccinations. This policy goes against Virginia law requiring schools and day care centers to maintain documented proof that their children have been vaccinated.
22Another day, another wingnut proposal in a state legislature: A Michigan (where else?) state senator proposes a bill that would ban foster parents from using the state-funded clothing allowance anywhere except thrift shops.
22If you're a church, and you host the President, and you question talk radio, you get death threats.
22What the anti-immigrant rabble-rousers don't want you to hear - Eastern European migrants add £5bn to British economy.
22First openly gay candidate wins in Japanese election.
22Stephen H tells it like it is: "Heaven is a fairy story."
22American history - Sarah Palin style.
22In a weekend of seemingly inexhaustible stupidity from Sarah Palin, she claims that the “Statue of Liberty” was a gift from all Europeans (not just the French) to warn Americans not to make the same mistake they made during a fundraiser in Modesto, CA.
22Iran decides to help Britain out with its riots by suggesting that the British government stop using violence against the protesters, and instead talk and listen to them. Oh the irany.
22Al Gore summarizes the climate "debate" in the simplest terms possible. (Cue "Gore-bull warming" jokes from the deniosphere.)
22The amazing Jon Stewart talks about taxing the lower 50% and we get some disturbingly Randroid like clips from Fox News people.
22Want to see why the United States has become one of the largest disgraces of the modern world? (Yes, they're cheering.) See the following comments for even more headdesk.
22CERN reports neutrinos traveling faster than light. WTF? Yep, that's what they said too.
22US Congress backpedals on SOPA. Update: The White House expresses objections to SOPA and PIPA.
22 If a pregnant woman in Georgia miscarries she could be lethally injected or otherwise subject to the death penalty. [8]
22Disabled? Too ill to work? No, too ill to get paid to work.
22The Heartland Institute vaguely threatens desmog blog for releasing their own documents that they haven't confirmed if they are authentic or not. Also threatened: Brad Johnson from 'ThinkProgress'; Arianna Huffington from The Huffington Post; John H. Harris from Politico; Greg Laden, a blogger at ScienceBlogs; 350 or Bust; and Charles Johnson from Little Green Footballs. And a 71-year-old veteran writing in a local newspaper. Popcorn anyone?
22Laurens County, South Carolina GOP: You can't be a Republican if you've had sex outside of your marriage. Oh, Newt...
22Could anybody have seen this coming? Frothy is suspending his campaign!
22Twitter has a picture of the Taj Mahal on its homepage. English Defence League leader Stephen Lennon cites this as another example of creeping sharia, starting a comedy Twitter trend in the process.
22It is officially legal to abort a fetus without a brain in Brazil. "Pro-lifers" protest, presumably drawing on experiences with pet rocks.
22Paul Cameron says that because Obama supports gay marriage, he must also be gay. Oh yes, and all gays should be locked up, before they rape children.
22America takes another lurch towards a 1984-esque dystopia.
22Birthers lose another court case.
22"We kept our 15-year-old daughter in a chicken coop and shock collar, because we're doing what the Bible says." (Faux News manages to leave mention of the Bible bit out of their story.)
22Iowa state GOP candidate goes full Freeman, becomes "a U.S. senator of an alternative form of government."
22Tireless efforts by a conservative blogger uncover another frightening Democratic scandal: a woman hugging her husband.
22WikiLeaks proves its relevance yet again, is currently getting pounded by a DDoS from what most likely is the US government. Update: Assange et al.'s response.
22Gabby Giffords returns home.
22Anti-Semite party leader discovers Jewish Heritage. This could be an analogous law of Haggard's Law
22Back in 2008 Iceland was facing economic Armageddon. Guess their unemployment rate now.
22Not content with the birther crown, Donald Trump expands into Vaccine hysteria. One more batshit cause and he wins the trifecta
22So, some guy wanted life sentences for women who have abortions. Is anyone surprised by this shit any more?
22Scientists are uncertain about uncertainty
22 Holy God. The Romney Unit was very, very worried about his wife's plane making a forced landing due to smoke in the cabin. Why not open a window, asks the Republican scientific genius. You couldn't make this shit up.
22What is this, the tenth time now? UPDATE: The story is pulled and replaced with funny Engrish. UPDATE II: Start the slow clap.
22US Unemployment rate down to 7.8%. UPDATE: GOP conspiracy nuts predictably, and entertainingly, cry fix.
22Eleven former teammates of Lance Armstrong testified that he was part of a "sophisticated doping conspiracy." Update: "The evidence...confirms the disappointing truth about the deceptive activities of the USPS Team, a team that received tens of millions of American taxpayer dollars in funding."
22The Sun has no clue on how evolution works, but at least we have a pretty good idea of what its readers look like.
22Does this count as irony? Evangelical author who "lived biblically" for a year -- including calling her husband "master" and camping out on the front lawn during her period -- has her book about the stunt rejected by one of the largest Christian bookstores in the US because she used the word "vagina" in it.
22When facts hit you in the face, just throw the report away.
22Memo to US voters: If you think the "down ballot" candidates and initiatives aren't important enough to garner your attention, somebody at your local elections office might "complete" your ballot for you.
22The cream of the twitterati congratulate Obama.
22Despite criticising Obama for using executive orders, Mittens' prepared President-elect website reveals he planned to issue an executive order on the first day in office to begin dismantling Obamacare.
22We still had these?
22The Dutch on abstinence only education: Hahahahahahahaha.
22This is why you don't accept wrestling moguls into your political party.
22Aww, the Zuckerbergs don't wike their own pwivacy settings!
22The Senate shows how "liberal" it actually is.
22DNA, screw your structural orthodoxy. We're going quadruple helix.
22In Mormonland: Do you look black gay liberal? I'm going to charge you more!
22The Independent reports that the Koch brothers and other fossil fuel industry kazillionaires are secretly channeling money to organizations that back global warming sceptics. Quelle surprise.
22China to Jong-un: Yeah...that nuclear test is a really dumb idea.
22Good news: They no longer want to charge rape victims who have an abortion with destroying evidence. Bad news: They now want to charge the doctor who performs the abortion with destroying evidence.
22Little Bobby down in Tennessee isn't doing well in school? Welp, back to discount bread and soup for his entire family.
22The NRA, following in the footsteps of Nixon, has an enemies list. Sadly, RationalWiki isn't on it.
22No sooner do we celebrate the successful end to the Alabama stand-off, with the gun nut dead and the 5-year-old safe, than we hear about the assault rifle "assault weapon" toting Florida man, who forced his wife to watch as he shot their sons, then himself.
22The GOP's War on Women continues unabated.
22Religion bringing people together.
22Prepare to watch a NYT writer get fired for trying to repeat the Tesla/Top Gear fiasco. Update: Pwning continues.
22In 2013, the tide was turned against AIDS ... ... or maybe not ...
22Is Israel reading the same history books as we are?
22In Louisiana, a charter school is teaching children the Hippies worshiped Satan.
22Mandatory gun ownership... that'll make closing time in the bars on payday interesting...
22The GOP does some serious navel gazing, and comes up with: "The Republican Party needs to stop talking to itself…and driving around in circles in an ideological cul-de-sac...young voters are increasingly rolling their eyes at what the Party represents...and if changes aren't made, it will be increasingly difficult for Republicans to win another Presidential election." Grab some popcorn and sit back - the next eight years may be interesting times for the Party of No.
22The Aussies have "revived and reactivated" an unusual species of frog that went extinct 30 years ago.
22Egypt issues arrest warrant for Bassem Youssef, the "Egyptian Jon Stewart".
22Fundamentalist Muslims in the hundreds of thousands from Bangladesh: "Hang atheists for hurting our feelings over the internet! Update: Bangladesh's PM: Fuck off.
22Florida woman finds "sign from God" on Goldfish cracker.
22America's answer to school shootings: bulletproof school uniforms.
22RINO Alert!
22Obama announces "End of concessions" to North Korea whenever it starts trying to threaten war
22FBI investigates Saudi student seen carrying a pressure cooker; it contained rice
22For the math geeks: About 2300 years ago, Euclid hypothesized that there are an infinite number of "twin prime" numbers -- prime numbers that differ by a value of 2, such as 3 and 5, 17 and 19, 2,003,663,613x2195,000-1 and 2,003,663,613x2195,000+1, et cetera. Euclid's hypothesis hasn't been proven yet,but a mathematician has just published proof that there are an infinite number of prime numbers that differ from each other by a value of no more than 70,000,000, which actually narrows down the range by a considerable amount.
22The Boy Scouts end the ban on gay members, and Yahoo's far right comment basefreaks out after insisting in previous articles that it wouldn't happen.
22Definitive proof creationism, not evolution, is true
22Call the Whambulance! An anti-abortion activist gets upset when theTwitterverse hijacks "his" #ExposePP hashtag to deliver reasonable truths about Planned Parenthood, then claims it was successful anyway.
22If there ever was any doubt that gender equality can benefit men too, here is conclusive proof.
22And here is where it's got to, allegedly: "Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed this week that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call could be accessed 'simply based on an analyst deciding that.'"
22The government wants to spy on you precisely because you want your privacy.
22If the Obamacare clusterfuck was enough for everyone last year, it's going to be even worse next week:The Supreme Court has to decide on DOMA, Prop 8, Affirmative Action and the Voting Rights Act.
22Nelson Mandela in critical condition.
22Freedom of religion just turned into a pissing contest
22Gay prisoners in Israel win the right for conjugal visits.
22Republican State Representative Jodie Laubenberg is the author of the most recent anti-abortion bill in Texas. But just six years ago, not only did she want to deny fetuses access to the state's Children's Health Insurance Program because "they're not born yet," she went a step further by trying to get newborns to wait three months to be added to the program.
22Our ideologically-favoured charter schools can't produce results? Well then, let's just adjust the standards a bit.
22Prepare for a crapload of persecution complex flareups regarding the 2013 Boston bombings: It appears that the Tsarnaev brothers weren't just looking at Jihadist/anti-American literature.
22GOP official pokes fun at Weiner, then gets arrested for sexting a minor.
22The consequences of capitalism: Bank Intern dies after working until 6am three days running. There used to be laws against this, didn't there?
22Louisiana Republicans: Maybe Bush was responsible for the handling of Hurricane Katrina, maybe it was Obama (over three years before he became President... Somehow being a Senator in Illinois really shows influence in Louisiana)
22Update on Kenneth Copeland's anti-vaccine maga-church that was hit with a measles epidemic: it's now offering free vaccinations.
22"Responsible Gun Ownership" at work: Ted Nugent’s wife arrested in Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport for carrying a gun in carry-on bag
22UK Skyscraper melted car by reflecting sunlight on it. (Sunshine in Britain? Who'd have thought it?)
22Good luck, Malawi.
22Michelle Obama endorses Americans drinking water. Republicans are outraged.
22Taking the idea from post-war Germany, Greece set to ban Golden Dawn from politics.
22More stupidity from Russia: Tchaikovsky was never gay, and Berlusconi wouldn't have been tried if he was one!
22Texas somehow can't keep creation in schools off the discussion.
22A Guardian FOIA request discovers that on January 23, 1961 (three days after JFK's inauguration speech) the USAF was one safety switch from accidentally nuking North Carolina.
22So how do you complete a hated dud of a film trilogy that rails against altruism and mooching? Why, by mooching for altruistic donors via Kickstarter, of course!
22Two cheers for the Saudi religious police!
22Anti-GMO celebrity Gilles-Eric Séralini ticks off another item on the crank checklist by threatening to sue the journal that retracted his study.
22The Mormons finally decide that black skin isn't a curse from God. (The LDS's official statement: Race and the Priesthood)
22Three days into a vehicular manslaughter trial in Maryland, a Jehovah's Witness on the jury causes a mistrial because she suddenly realized that judging others is against her religion.
22Mark 16:18 claims another idiot victim.
22Ukranian President flees offices. If only there was some kind of pun that could be made about chickens and Kiev-Oh wait, there is. Update: "Actually. I'm not even mad. That's amazing." (And goats!)
22Moral of the story: Think twice and plan carefully before you challenge what you would perceive as your enemy's strength.
22The Dalai Lama now all but supports gay marriage.
22Thursday saw CPAC's most important panel: Minority outreach. Look at the crowds! (A photo of this same panel room full of people exists, because the outreach panel went over its time and the room began to fill for the next scheduled talk: NRA exec Wayne LaPierre.)
22"Hi, I can't access my bitcoin server, but I promise that I'm totally the owner of it. Pinky swear" Oh, in that case, here you go...
22Mar. 17: I fart in your general direction, Obama!
Today: *crickets* Erm... shit. Shit. What are we gonna do, sanction the man the Americans call 'Orange Overlord'? Boehner: Yay!
22Sigh. Wednesday's meeting of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has far more stupid than science going on (although Representative Eric Swalwell (D–CA) did manage to get in some good zingers, at least.)
22Hang in there, Anayasa Mahkemesi.
22The golden age of the internet is over? Comcast and Verizon could be making off like bandits.
22"When UKIP was under attack/Old Nigel prepared to fight back/We're clearly not racist/He said, on the basis/That some of our people are black."
22More pieces being chipped out of the wall between church and state.
22Happy now Jenny?
22John Oliver hosts a statistically proportional debate on Global warming featuring Bill Nye. It's more verbal beatdown.
22EU court confirms right to disappear from internet. Totally non-evil data mining business cries censorship.
22Thanks to Pamela Geller: DC buses. Now with MOAR HITLER!
22An incident worthy of the "-gate" suffix: A supporter of a Teabagger primary challenge against a (Mississippi GOP) incumbent breaks into the nursing home of the Senator's vegetative wife and shoots video. The cops have the guy's laptop, and the campaign knew what happened before the arrest went public.
22New study out of New Zealand confirms that there is no link between water fluoridation and reduced IQ.
22Police bust a major child porn ring, thanks to the collection of child porn videos, found on an Orthodox rabbi's computer.
22First European Parliament elections since eurozone crisis: Group of over 100 proto-fascists and far-left loons now set to disrupt the other 600 members doing any actual work. Countries wilfully prepared to embarrass themselves: France, Denmark, Greece, Austria and surprise, the Brits.
22Gays shouldn't have the same rights to promote their viewpoints as everyone else. But I'm totally liberal, though.
22South Carolina governor wishes to ban a African-American biker event, but nothing similar is said on a white biker event.
22Things the GOP blame on Obama #76,756,463: Eric Cantor's defeat.
22For years, France has been expelling tens of thousands of Roma en masse because of a racist backlash that has enveloped many European countries. Now a Roma boy has been beaten into a coma.
22When the CIA produced demon-faced Osama bin Laden action figures
22Ukraine gives Putin the finger.
22Responsible gun owner discharges gun on children
22So nice to see the "Liberal media" giving Flat Earthers a voice. CNBC seeks Op-Ed on “global warming being a hoax”.
22"I just wish America would be America again because it's not...they're going to take over our schools!" (Redneck uprising in California.)
22Perverse incentives of "publish or perish": 60 articles retracted after being implicated in a peer-review and citation ring. (Discussion including someone who worked on detecting the ring.)
22Slavoj Žižek caught plagiarising White Nationalist journal
22Church of England General Synod approves women bishops.
22Last June was the hottest June on record, according to the NOAA.
22Benghazi: Well, that ended quickly?
22CALM launch suicide awareness #ManDown campaign in Liverpool
22Because history is always full of wildcards: Kim Jong-un is apparently ill with something. Ill enough to be mentioned in state propaganda.
22Strange Rumblings in Hong Kong.
22GodTV just became the latest pot of "moral failure". Oops?
22Jovian, Lemur mascot and co-host of late 90's animal edutainment show Zoboomafoo, has passed.
22Guess who's running for president again! (GOP national primaries: better than any reality show.)
22Gaylard Williams, pastor of Praise Cathedral Church of God in Seymour, Indiana, victim of Haggard's Law.
22Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantanamo Diary is finally published. WARNING: the extracts are not easy reading.
22 Saudi national, Raif Badawi was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for setting up a liberal blog and criticising Saudi religious authorities. The first 50 lashes were carried out but the second 50 were postponed because the wounds had not healed and further lashings might kill him. Five ways you can help Raif Badawi are suggested.
22Alabama joins other states where gay marriage bans have fallen as everybody looks to the Supreme Court's decision this year. When a deep south Shrub appointee calls you out on your bullshit, you may need to rethink your arguments.
22President Castro says Obama needs to return Gitmo 7 years after he was elected promising to close it down.
22Yet another media triumph for GamerGate
22Slicing into a woman's pelvis with a hacksaw and cauterising the wound with a soldering iron is love for the child
22Not content with earning the wrath of the planet by beheading their hostages, ISIS executes their latest victim by burning him alive. UPDATE: Well played, Jordan, well played.
22Oregon, where upskirt pictures of a minor aren't a privacy issue, as long as she's wearing underwear, and the pictures aren't taken in a locker-room.
22GOP-Dominated Utah House Gives A Green Light To Bring Back Firing Squads
22The Israel Experience With Mike Huckabee: come for the country-western star with the "Texas: We Don’t Call 911" cap, stay for the proclamation that "If you’re an enemy [of Israel], you’re in real trouble. God doesn’t change his mind about this stuff. It’s an eternal book."
22In order to destroy any cultural distinction in the Arab states, Daesh bulldozes the ancient city of Nimrud. Hatra also.
22Of course all those lefties in the UK in the '80s who spoke of Thatcher and the Tories like they were barely-human in their evil were just exaggerating. Conservatives: The Party Of Fucking Children and Coverups Of Fucking Children.
22Fanta has a funny definition of the "Good Old Times."
22Texan Teabagger newbie representative Molly White offers a bill that states that even if the SCOTUS declares gay marriage legal in Texas, Texas can ignore them.
22An amazing story of determination versus cancer turns out to be less than advertised. Turns out making a profit from fakery can extend to App Stores.
22California's ballot initiative process at its very finest
22God Allah joins anti-ISIS coalition.
22Parents flee to Mexico after starving and trying to resurrect their "demon-possessed" baby.
22SpaceX "lands" their Falcon 9... and it promptly falls over sideways.
21God is not the Creator, claims academic
21Ten years, thousands of deaths and one insane policy too late.
212003: Supreme Court rules in favor of 2 homosexuals arrested by Houston deputies for sexual relations. Flash forward 7 years later: Lesbian sworn in as Houston mayor!!!
21Ann Coulter is offended that Canada would lump her as those who would spread hate speech. She would be justified if she didn't tell a Muslim student to take a camel.
21One of Bush's speechwriters said in an interview regarding Fox News that the GOP thought that Fox worked for them, but instead it turns out that the GOP actually works for Fox. But that's not why he "resigned" from the American Enterprise Institute. In fact, they "welcomed and celebrated" his comments. What's more, they were so orgasmic over his comments that "they offered him the chance to continue on at a salary of zero."
21The Sunday Times: "Richard Dawkins intends to arrest the Pope.". Richard Dawkins: "Come again?"
21The British Medical Association say that Homeopathy is witchcraft.
21Tears of joy as Argentina becomes the first Latin American country to legalise same-sex marriage and grant full equal rights to gay and lesbian couples.
21Welsh local councilman gets in hot water over a tweet mentioning he rushed past a Scientology church "in case the stupid rubs off"
21In Oklahoma City, where about 80% of the residents are Christian, atheists have installed a billboard that has elicited the expected wailing and gnashing of teeth.
21Pussies.
21Koran-burning Pastor banned from UK
21WikiLeaks publishes cables from U.S. embassy claiming that Saudi Arabia is overstating the amount of its oil reserves by about 40 percent (300 billion barrels).
21Now you see it...now you don't! Mitt Romney, creator of an Obama-style healthcare system in Massachusetts, deletes all mention of it from the paperback edition of his autobiography.
21GOP state representative Mike Beard thinks coal mining should resume in the Land of 10,000 Lakes because god will provide unlimited natural resources. Beard told MinnPost. "We are not going to run out of anything." Apparently he doesn't understand that just covering up the mine and praying doesn't make god zap new resources where the old ones were.
21Mike Huckabee proves that being a moron doesn't exclude you from being the "GOP frontrunner."
21Massive earthquake and tsunami strike northern Japan. Tsunami warnings around the Pacific.
21Hugo Chavez has told the world that there was life on Mars, and capitalism destroyed it.
21According to Indiana State representative Eric Turner, abortion laws shouldn't have exceptions for victims of rape or incest, because then women will just claim they've been raped to get an abortion.
21An American woman attacks a painting by artist Paul Gauguin, claiming it to be evil. "He has nudity and is bad for the children. He has two women in the painting and it's very homosexual."
21A 14-member commission formed to investigate tax loopholes for religious organizations is exclusively composed of Evangelical Christians. Chances of bias: Low. Protest this farce here.
21The free market brought a wrecking ball to the movie Atlas Shrugged Part 1, so there won't be Parts 2 or 3. Oh, if only there'd been proper Government investment for independent filmmakers!
21Belief in "birtherism" plummets.
21Camping still "missing" as world offers support to his dazed followers.
21"Just one more thing..." Peter Falk, 83, dies.
21Following the phone hacking scandal, advertisers are now hitting Murdoch where it hurts:the wallet.
21A ruse to avoid Parliamentary scrutiny, or another domino toppling? Rebekah Brooks arrested over phone-hacking allegations. Update: The NotW whistle-blower Sean Hoare is found dead.
21Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain sides with communities that want to ban mosques, and, in an attempt to break the irony meter, calls one proposed Tennessee mosque an "infringement and an abuse of our freedom of religion."
21The largest assholes in the known universe [http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1065865--westboro-church-announces-protest-of-jobs-funeral-via-iphone strike again.}
21Share the pain of GOP Rep. John Fleming: By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over.Here is the world's smallest violin, playing the world's saddest song, just for you John!
21You won't see an article like this in the United States. (and in a moderate newspaper!) Update: And another.
21Spock makes the logical choice.
21We are the 53 percent and we have bad photoshop skills.
21WTF of the Day: Another independent study confirms man-made climate change, as expected. But here's the kicker - they're funded by the Koch brothers.
21It seems that SOPA and the PROTECT IP Act might actually have enough support to pass through both houses. The survival of the Internet now rests on the hope that Obama has the balls to use the veto hammer.
21Belgium gets an atheist, socialist and openly gay prime minister.
21The gay community of Minnesota apologises for ruining the institution of marriage.
21...is there any chance that this woman can get elected in this day and age?
21Indonesian man faces jail time for posting on an atheist Facebook page.
21In the wake of the Wikipedia-induced SOPA backlash, ex-Senator turned MPAA lobbyist Chris Dodd, upset that his former colleagues aren't staying bought, directly threatens them. A White House petition to investigate this blatant statement of bribery gets over 10,000 signatures in its first 24 hours.
21A cardboard cutout of Ayatollah Khomeini inspects Iranian military. ...wait, what?
21Westboro Baptist Church threatens to picket Whitney Houstons funeral. Chickens out, and photoshops themselves into pictures from said funeral, claiming success.
21Former Archbishop: You can't have gay marriage, because the government doesn't "own" marriage. Minister: You're right, it's "owned" by the people, and they seem in favour of gay marriage.
21What's worse than letting a penis decide what happens to a uterus? How about your experience with livestock deciding what happens to a uterus?
21Lord Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury, argues that British Christians are being persecuted, driven underground and "framed by homosexual activists".
21The standards body of U.S. Conservative Judaism introduce new ritual frameworks for same-sex Jewish weddings. Mazel tov!
21US evangelical group uses Saul & The Amalekites to teach children it's OK to murder atheists
21Louisiana newspaper defends running ad that asks the magical question: "Will Obama and the Democrats shoot Christians and Catholics?"
21Democracy in Canada takes another brutal body blow, as "embarrassment to the government" is declared to be a national security threat.
21Mitt Romney's campaign strategy: Ignore journalists, pander to insane right-wing conspiracy sites like the Drudge Report.
21Michigan's GOP are involved in a (surprise, surprise) scandal involving election fraud.
21Trayvon Martin killing - Hate crime? Racially motivated killing? White Suburban Paranoia? Naw, it was GOD'S PLAN!
2112 dead, 59 injured, as gunman goes on rampage during screening of new Batman movie in Colorado. Update: Now considered the largest mass shooting in American history. All firearms purchased legally.
21Mitt Romney: Birther-in-Chief.
21Non-religious people make up the largest group in the latest survey of UK religious attitudes.
21Seralini's "GMO gives cancer to rats" study has attracted unprecedented condemnation in a joint statement of six French academies of science. In the comments, people smell a Monsanto conspiracy!
21The Saudi government bulldozes centuries of Islam's own history. But, hey, even Muslims like skyscrapers!
21Ohio's Secretary of State - the Republican guy who fired County officials who voted for extending early voting - has ordered that “experimental software patches” be installed on vote-counting machines in a number of Ohio counties.
21New Hampshire makes history by becoming the first state ever to send an all-female delegation to Congress. Also, their new governor-elect will be the only Democratic Party female governor in the US during the next two-year cycle.
21Poe's Law emanates in the most unusual of circumstances.
21Congratulations, Bush!
21Anti-gaming California Senator Leland Yee to the NRA: why are you so quick to agree with me now?
21Michael Bloomberg: "In recent weeks, we've heard some people say that the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. But sometimes the good guys get shot - and sometimes, they are killed."
21Oh, you know, just another mass shooting in America.
21South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsay Graham: Gay-inclusive immigration reform as unlikely as legal abortions.
21Well, at least the rightwingers will be happy it wasn't one of them this time: Black ex-cop snaps, goes on spree shooting in Los Angeles. His manifesto. Police shoot wrong people. Update: Up pops a loony almost immediately
21The moment sexual equality becomes a reality: When you don't have to use a professional soccer career to try and "escape" from your own sexual orientation.
21Let's see you doing it then, you fucking prick (Especially if it's for free)
21We are as gods.
21End of the line for Holocaust deniers: The total number of those exterminated could be raised to 20 million, with researchers finding six times the amount of Nazi ghettos and death camps previously estimated.
21A guilty verdict for the alleged human beings in Steubenville. The scumbags receive a whole one year in juvie.
21No Christianity in our Easter eggs, please.
21Fucking Andrew Wakefield rears his scaly head once more.
21France is finally going to get gay marriage. Update: And Uruguay!
21Thought racial segregation was a thing of the past? Think again.
21The Bitcoin network uses 982 megawatt-hours a day just computing hashes. That would power 31,000 American homes or half a Large Hadron Collider.
21Canadian woman has marker put on her US Customs and Borders Service file. Her crime? Having condoms and traveling with a married man [9]. Follow-up from her [10]
21Suspect in Canadian terror case bullet proof defense? The Criminal Code of Canada is not a holy book and should not apply to me. You use that defense good sir!
21Michele Bachmann's ethical problems worsen, which results in her running away from the media.
21Another Republican gets caught out; acts like a petulant asshat in response.
21NH State Rep Stella Tremblay, Tea Party member, birther, and idiot. Not content, she doubles down by JAQing off about one of the bombing victims supposedly faking a double amputation. After everyone goes after her for her disgusting insensitivity, she issues an apology, and then goes onto Boston radio to continue JAQing off about his "suspect" injuries. Bonus: She doesn't want the FBI investigating it, but an "unbiased" group like Sheriff Joe Arpaio's cold case posse!
21A former Mayor and councillor of a Greater London borough passed unpopular, strict parking laws. Caught by a citizen recording him while he was illegally parked in a loading bay, he decided that the best decision was to assault her.
21The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland is threatening to excommunicate Taoiseach Enda Kenny for trying to passwell-needed abortion laws. His response is for the win.
21"A generation of untrained scientists" in New York and New Jersey... and across the United States.
21In predominantly Muslim Indonesia, non-Muslim children are routinely taken from their parents so that they may receive some "education" that they can (attempt to) pass on to the folks back home.
21& Fitch don't like "uncool" and "unattractive" people wearing their clothes? -Give them to the homeless!
21If you're a dentist and this economy's put you out of work,move to Oregon in the next six months and you'll have it made.
21We all know that sheriff Joe Arpaio has a small problem with the Constitution as it applies to brown people, but it's official.
21Massive "Occupy"-style protests have begun against the Turkish government. (It appears the Justice and Development Party[wp] has flirted too much with the fundies.)
21Why China needs unions.
21HBO demonstrates the psychopathy of the entertainment industry by (ineffectively and likely erroneously)trying to memory hole the open-source media player VLC off Google's search index. For added incompetence fun, they have also issued at least one DMCA takedown notice against their own official website in the past.
21Pope Francis to Catholics on the Twittersphere: For 140 characters or less, I'lllet you have "time off purgatory."
21It sounds awful until you get to the end of the article: Ireland just passed the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act.(Spoiler: It legalizes, not prohibits, abortion.) Companion article: What the law changes.
21In anywhere outside Japan, this would be a guaranteed resignation. (Yes, this is the same Tarō Asō who proposed that old people should die to combat rising pension costs.)
21The NSA is hilariously incapable of doing its job.
21Julian Assange praises Matt Drudge, a man who writes wingnut propaganda for a living, and Paul Ryan, a man who smiles while he consigns your grandma to poverty. Your cause is great and all, Assange, but would it have killed you to admire some people who aren't utterly loathsome?
21Poor persecuted Christians will now be faced with atheist books, alongside their Bibles, in Georgia's state parks' cabins.
21Narendra Dabholkar who campaigned in India against belief in witchcraft, superstition and related exploitation was shot dead.
21Financial stress reduces your ability to think clearly
21If you used Google today (6 September 2013), did you notice that its web address now starts with "https://"?
21Bet they never saw it coming...
21The Pope tells atheists to abide by their own consciences, "Listening to it and abiding by it means making up one's mind about what is good and evil." No, really.
21Lou Reed is dead.
21Lose weight now! Ask Soylent Green how!
21Before you call for food-stamp users to undergo drug tests, it's probably a good idea to make sure you aren't coked up to the eyeballs...
21Sylvia Browne is dead, which contradicts yet another of her predictions.
21Gilles-Eric Séralini's infamous "GM corn and Roundup cause cancer" study is being retracted. (Comments are already full of appeals to Monsanto.)
21Not even Azeroth is safe from the prying spying eyes of the US !
21The Sun lists Lucy Powell as one of the laziest MPs in the UK based on her voting record - actually, she was on maternity leave. (cue some serious bullshit from twitter fuckwads)
21Billy Graham's grandson claims Evangelicals have a worse sex abuse record than Catholics.
21How do you fuck up a dedication to Nelson Mandela? Easy! Use a picture of Morgan Freeman instead.
21Mikhail Kalashnikov dies at age 94.
21Sherlock Holmes is now officially in the public domain.
21Not news: Man driving around in an authentic NYPD cruiser gets stopped and arrested by cops for impersonating a police officer. News: The cruiser wasn't stolen. What: This happened in the British town of Guildford.
21Kansas thinks that homes shouldn't have access to broadband internet.
21A pastor at a Colorado Springs homeless ministry is caught after trolling Craigslist for a male prostitute, then having sex with him impersonating a U.S. Marshall, after which he handcuffed, kidnapped and robbed him.
21Google to Russia and the IOC on the eve of the Sochi opening ceremonies: Shame on you. Update: UK's Channel 4 also show their support for gay-rights with a satirical Sochi anthem
21South Carolina legislators use budget cuts to punish colleges assigning LGBT books. (Warning: autoplay video.)
21The world's oldest Holocaust survivor has died
21People (especially the young) are leaving religion because of LGBT doctrines.
21Star Trek actress appears in movie promoting geocentrism. (Also some people we have articles about: Michio Kaku, Lawrence Krauss, Max Tegmark) Update: She was misinformed about the content, and Krauss has also disowned it. (Expelled, anyone?)
21Pat Robertson finally gets what the Bible is about.
21kluski all round! Poles may now officially enjoy the embrace of His Noodly Appendages.
21Remember the "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" papyrus that the Vatican made a tizzy about? Time for more goalpost-moving.
21CBS: It's complete! We have harnessed the power of the Truthiness! Update: And the wingnuts are pissed.
21Last fall, a leader of the "biblical patriarchy" and Christian homeschooling movements got caught with his pants down, although he claimed that he did not "know" the woman (his 29-year-old nanny) in the "biblical sense". Now she is suing him and his now-defunct ministry, claiming that he groomed her starting at age 15, and that his idea of "not knowing her" included fondling her and masturbating over her every night while she was in bed trying to sleep. (And begging him to stop.)
21US conservative groups call porn consumption a "major public health crisis".
21In some parts of the USA, criminal defendants have to pay for such things as a jury and arrest warrants. That's right, you can bribe have to pay for your jury.
21Juan Carlos I continues the trend of abdicating instead of waiting til death.
21Improving the sanitation system in developing countries is important for various reasons, including privacy/safety/women's concerns, as this latest atrocity illustrates.
21In the ongoing war on teachers, a judge in California resorts to statistics that are pulled out of thin air to strike down tenure.
21This is all just an effort to distract attention from Benghazi.
21"I'm sorry, you can't enter the Democratic National Committee headquarters right now. The staff has achieved Nirvana." (Just in time for this baby.)
21Another "liberal media" story: "If You Were An Iraq War Critic, You're Probably Not Being Asked To Go On TV."
21The NC legislature passes a bill allowing cruelty to opossums during the New Year's week all to prevent a legal challenge to the cruel "Opossum Drop" event.
21Genetics just can't get any better: Neanderthal, meet Denisovan.
21The most badass-looking flying dinosaur ever has been discovered in China. Four wings, anyone?
21U.S. airlines cancel all Israel flights for 24 hours after some rockets fall near Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. At least one cancels them indefinitely.
21Out of control sex geckos in space. Update: Connection restored.
21John "This impeachment talk is a Democrat-led false flag" Boehner, everyone. Even better, he's effectively calling Sarah Palin a Democrat. (Money money money money, Mahneh!)
21Two of the top remaining Khmer Rouge leaders are found guilty of crimes against humanity.[11]
21Another "isolated incident" is still at large in Pennsylvania, a "sharpshooting survivalist" who attacked a state trooper barracks.
21You have a rat problem? Don't worry, we'll release owls into the area to clean them up. What could possibly go wro- oh, hello superstition...
21There were WMDs in Iraq. No, not those WMDs, but weapons dealt with by American troops that neither the neocons nor the Obama administration wanted to divulge to the public. Why? Well, it all starts with a visionary President, elected in 1980...
21We can't employ you. You're Irish and, thus, a drunk.
21@keithlaw is back on Twitter. First tweet back: "Eppur si muove."
21Yet again a grand jury wouldn't indict a white police officer who caused the death of a black man. Eric Garner refused to be handcuffed and felt police were harassing him for trying to break up a fight. Obama with other leading US politicians are trying to address a breakdown in trust between police and communities and Al Sharpton says the grand jury system is broken.
21 If you're black in the USA you can't go down the stairs in the place where you live without risking that a rookie police officer will "accidentally" shoot you dead! While Akai Gurley was dying the policeman who shot him didn't even get medical help Why are so many black people the victims of supposed police fatal mistakes and not others? This happens too often and is no coincidence.
21Paid fossil energy lobbyists posing as attorneys general in more than a dozen states. Republicans – who could have guessed that.
21The Taliban massacre over 100 schoolchidren and their teachers, in Pakistan. The government overeacts promising speedy executions and innocent people could die without a proper trial.
21Sony pulls the release of Seth Rogen/James Franco comedy The Interview due to empty North Korean threats. Fucking cowards. Update: Perfect timing, as the Times finally confirms what was long suspected. (It appears the regime is now so unstable that it will cyberattack Hollywood companies to prevent objectionable films from getting smuggled in. Holy Streisand... maybe Babs is no longer worthy.)
21Meanwhile in Nigeria, Boko Haram has massacred an estimated 2.000 people. Not heard about it?
21New York mayor Bill de Blasio says he'd veto a bill by city lawmakers that would make it illegal for a police officer to put a person in a chokehold during an arrest.
21Thatcher knew about the Westminster pedophile ring. The evidence was found in a place where the Government denied there being evidence when they looked. Hmmm.
21Feminists are just a bunch of ‘hatchet-faced miserable' women so I'm standing for parliament, here's my manifesto, (tl;dr: "Waaaa, waaaaah, whaa!") (Incidentally he's a big fan of Paul Elam)
21British MPs approve mitochondrial transfer law, despite objections from the Anglican and Catholic churches.
21After shooting a classmate, what should you not do? a) Take a selfie; b) Send your selfie to others c) All of the above
21"We’re racist, we’re racist and that’s the way we like it"
21In Indiana (and many other US states), you don't need to kill to be a murderer. A then-16 year old could be imprisoned for 55 years, because his friend got killed by the owner of a house they broke into, presuming no-one was there.
21Way to go, Bibi.
21An appeals court rules that Applebee's is not liable for a N.J. man's burning his face while praying over a fajita skillet.
21Listening to music affects the expression of genes in the brain. Epigenetics: Because regular genetics isn't complicated enough.
21Jeb Bush calls for the elimination of the federal minimum wage.
21Hanging death of Mississippi black man being investigated by FBI and DoJ Civil Rights division.
21How long will life survive on Earth?
21Whoa. The universe might not be expanding as fast as we thought. Meaning there might not be as much dark energy as previously thought.
21The USA is not the only western country where "white" police like to visit violence on "black" youth..
21In the name of political correctness, school principal and photographer erase the word feminist from an eighth-grader's shirt.
20Justice is served. Scott Roeder, the murderer of Dr. George Tiller, is convicted and imprisoned for life.
20New York Post not entirely clear on the concept.
20Idiot creationists, not just for America any more! Queensland students taught humans coexisted with dinosaurs. "But the teacher replied that DNA wasn't invented then."
20In Iceland the mayor of Reykjavik was "too busy" to attend the opening of a gay pride festival - so he sent his friend instead.
20The birthers get smacked down for the umpteenth time as the Supreme Court refused to block a $20K fine levied against Orly Taitz.
20It seems the population of Britain isn't hugely keen on hearing superstitious drivel from a bigot in a pointy hat.
20Rand Paul supporter stomps on a MoveOn.org activist
20Wikileaks irritates the establishment yet again. US diplomats are presumably having the time of their lives.
20Fox News pushing a specific agenda on climate change? NEVER! They only present the news in a Fair and Balanced™ manner, don't they?
20The GOP has resolved to not vote on any bills in Congress – anything at all – until the Democrats cave in to their tax demands. Unfortunately for a small portion of unusually good Americans, this includes a bill to take care of the health care woes of 9/11 first responders. Outraged at the hypocrisy of a party known for exploiting 9/11 whenever it serves them not actually doing anything positive about it, Jon Stewart brings the rage for pretty much an entire episode of his show.
20Ignorant Americans 1: In an amazing example of science confirming the obvious, the two main indicators for believing in young earth creationism: uneducated and Republican.
20Brazil swears in its first female president. The women of the United States continue to wonder when their time will come.
20Firefox overtakes Internet Explorer in Europe.
20Showing a marvelous lack of creativity, and just a fair bit of spite, the Republicans name HR2 the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.
20Congresswoman Giffords' (alleged) shooter has his own YouTube channel filled with rambling, conspiracy theorist text-only videos. He also posted some of his MySpace photos to TwitPic -- ("Look at the gun") Maybe he was inspired by the SARAHPac webpage which showed a map of 20 Democratic congressional districts with cross-hairs over them. (This last link includes a 2010 video interview with Congresswoman Giffords. The glass door to her office building had been shattered overnight. When asked if she was afraid, she eerily said she wasn't even though that street corner had become a congregation point for Tea Partyers.)
20Sarah Palin has released a self-serving video addressing the Giffords shooting. In it she plumbs the depths of her stupidity by claiming that journalists and pundits who criticized her bulls eye map were "manufacturing a blood libel." BTW: Giffords is Jewish as was Gabe Zimmerman, one of her aides who was killed at the shooting. UPDATE: Many prominent Jewish Republicans are having a "muted" reaction to Palin's "blood libel" claim. UPDATE 2: In fact, some right-wing Jews are still very much in her corner.
20Republican legislators find several House committee names to be politically incorrect. "Labor" is changed to "workforce" and "civil rights" are removed.
20Ohio School Board takes two years and $900,000 to fire a "teacher" who taught creationism against their orders, and even burned a cross into a students arm. (If you really care, The Panda's Thumb has been covering this from the beginning.)
20Rabbis to Glenn Beck and Roger Ailes: Enough with the Nazi references! UPDATE: Fox responds: These people are nothing but Soros funded, left wing publicity seekers.
20Mississippi contemplates a 'Confederacy anniversary' license plate honoring the leader of the KKK.
20Liz Taylor unwittingly gets the last laugh on the WBC. They were going to protest her funeral because of her long-time support for gay rights and AIDS activism. However, because she had converted from Christian Science to Judaism 52 years ago, she was in the ground before they could book passage to L.A.
20Possible GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain says he won't appoint Muslims to his administration. Aren't Teabaggers supposed to support the constitution?
20Barack Obama, at long last, tells Congress where to shove the partisan bickering: My daughters can finish work on time better than you!
20It's not Soylent Green. It's much, much worse.
20Surprise, surprise! Climate change denialist funded by Big Oil.
20An Austrian atheist and Pastafarian wins the right to wear a colander in his driver's licence photo.
20They do.
20Welcome to 20 years ago. According to Michelle Bachmann, Americans fear "the rise of the Soviet Union".
20Time to finally observe full-on libertarianism in reality. Who wants to bet on a BioShock ending in less than a few months?
20Wife got Alzheimer's? Pat Robertson says you can divorce her.
20Oh dear; a homeopathy seller shuts down: Due to the implementation of the European Union Traditional Medical Directive on 1st May 2011, GoHerbal (Guernsey) Ltd has ceased trading.
20Following countless failed predictions Harold Camping finally admits that he's full of shit.
20Would Republicans leave the United States' infrastructure to rot, just to oppose Obama? The answer, no surprise, is... happily so!
20"Watch Rick Perry's campaign end before your eyes." "Ah done my lernin' from th'excellent Texas Board of Education textbooks ah did yessir let's BURN DOWN EDUCASHUN an' sum'n else which wun hangon ooops.
20America - Greatest Country on Earth™, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave®, where everyone can live their American Dream©! And more than one in five children lives in poverty.
20Tea Party member calls for assassination of Obama and his family.
20Only in the South....
20Indiana Senate Bill 89 has been amended to explictly demand equal time for the creation myth... of Scientology. (Along with every other one under the Sun.)
20Fidel Castro's newly released memoirs inexplicably fail to mention how he dropped dead in 2009.
20It's not rape, this is what God's love feels like.
20Fuck it, this is not going to clogs - Frothy Mix's new attack ad. The best quote: "Mitt Romney's ugly attacks are going to backfire."
20New from the University of Obviousness: LGBT youth who experience victimization and harassment from family and peers are more likely to be suicidal.
20Republican-led House committee holds a hearing on insurance coverage of contraceptives. Invited to testify by committee chair Darrell Issa -- five men (mostly clergy) and two token women, both from right-wing Christian colleges. Other women were available to testify, but were deemed by Issa to be not "appropriate and qualified."
20The Climategate guys: How does it feel, Heartland?
20The Clown Car of Candidates lie their asses off during the most recent debate.
20It appears Kim No. 3 might actually care about his people.
20Zimmerman to be charged.
20For the first time, a federal commission in the U.S. has ruled that trans people are protected from employment discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Now we wait for a Supreme Court case and/or ENDA...
20The World Trade Center quietly reclaims the New York skyline.
20North Carolina takes a step further back from Equal Rights, banning official non Male-Female relationships.
20Apparently Jesus belongs to Tim Tebow AND NO ONE ELSE!.
20A psychiatrist says "sorry" to gays.
20Arizona, we give you two words: Fuck off.
20Update on a previous WIGO: After DOMA forced a legally married widower to pay $363,000 in estate taxes, a New York district judge rules the law unconstitutional and calls for laws that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation to be "subject to a heightened form of judicial scrutiny."
20Animals are WAY smarter than we thought. Or we're dumber than we thought. Or both.
20Good news for the 80-odd prisoners sentenced to life without parole for murders committed before their 15th birthday: SCOTUS declares their punishment "cruel and unusual."
20Oreo goes badass. Best Comment yet: "Now that I think about it, Oreo cookies are basically gay metaphors anyway. Cream filling stuck between two hard, round, black, flat things? Come on. Someone's got jungle fever." 27 June 12
20In totally unsurprising news, Katie Holmes decides to divorce Xenu.
20One Million Moms don't seem to know the bit about "those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
2030 Million uninsured Americans? The GOP says that's not the issue.
20As the government of Mississippi moves to end the state's only clinic where people can access abortion procedures, a federal judge blocks the law temporarily, quoting something silly about legal precedent and constitutional rights.
20An 18 year old is sentenced to over a 160 years in prison for armed robbery. This after a woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing a gun into the air to ward off her abusive husband, and after the brouhaha over even getting George Zimmerman on trial, makes you think that Florida has a really fucked up justice system
20The UK's Court of Appeal upholds a ruling that the Catholic Church can be held liable for the wrongdoings of its priests.
20Rwandan gorillas outsmart poachers.
20What? You're giving women access to birth control? That's as bad as 9/11!
20The WWW turns 21, and its baby photos are online
20Catholic Church makes a fortune in the German porn business. Somehow, I'm not really surprised.
20The pregnant teen, who couldn't have chemotherapy due to the Dominican Republic's abortion laws, has died.
20The devi-YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE YOUR SCHOLARSHIP, LADY!
20Apparently spying on American muslims is a big waste of time. NYPD reacts in shock that their sure fire investigation failed to turn up any terrorists. Cenk weighs in.
20The best way to stop abortions is deadly force.
20Once again, Christians show that the First Amendment only applies to them.
20A new Arizona law, signed by Governor Brewer, defines pregnancy as starting two weeks prior to conception. Very sadly, not The Onion.
20Personhood USA fails again to put Personhood up for a vote in Colorado.
20New Zealand 'marriage equality' bill passes its first hurdle with former staunch opponents voting to allow gay marriage.
20Good To Know Dept.: I, and everyone I know, are proud members of the working classes, and despite our delusions of grandeur,not a one of us is 'Middle Class'. Thanks for clarifying Mitt!
20A fourth century piece of papyrus is found that is the earliest known reference to Jesus having a wife.
20Senior member of German Pirate Party really doesn't like people sharing her book.
20This is some interesting shit right here, and I don't mean the colonic bullshit.
20Jack Wu of the Westboro Baptist Church is after a place on the Kansas Board of Education, to stop the state “preparing its students to be liars, crooks, thieves, murderers, and perverts.”
20The Pakistani Taliban nearly kill a feminist activist
20The Romney campaign found scaremongering over Lyme disease.
20Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute reveals that climate change may be affecting the evolution of certain tropical tree frogs.
20Running out of adjectives to describe the GOP these days...
20The easiest way to get Mitt to strip away his robotic persona? Talk to him about LDS. Holy fuck.
20David Coppedge loses his case against JPL.
20Mittens charged with violating Federal Ethics Law!
20How fiscally conservative is Romney? Trying to get home from work on election night, his campaign workers discovered their credit cards had already been cut off.
20Sean Hannity's position on illegal immigrants changes spontaneously. Obviously a RINO.
20The Seattle Police Department addresses the passage of I-502 (legalizing marijuana) with amazing candor and wit. (Spoiler: They actually use "TL;DR" in proper context.)
20Occupy Wall Street has come up with a plan to bail out people, not banks.
20A 24-hour petition to further postpone Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill gets past its halfway mark, with unconfirmed reports of the death penalty clause being removed (for now), retaining life imprisonment.
20Come on Mitt maybe you can find a few companies to strip their assets from, you know, to pass the time?
20A match made in wingnut heaven.
20America and science, not working together [12]. Particularily, homosexuality and psychiatry
20Roger Ailes to Karl and Dick: Time for your punishment.
20Ok, so that's Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor vs. Scalia, Thomas, Alito and (possibly - but remember Obamacare) Roberts. Anthony Kennedy, do you want to make history?
202011 UK Census produces religion statistics. Headline figures: Christianity down from 71% to 59%, No Religion up from 15% to 25%
20Culture of workshyness and families going three generations without jobs and living on benefits are all myths says study that looked at, you know, those things called "facts"
20Long-time conservative Joe Scarborough finally abandons his pro-gun stance after the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
20Facebook page for the NRA now MIA
20NRA just keeps on digging...
20You know, there is an alternative to not paying your workers properly. It was developed by a bearded German man living in Brussels back in 1848. So how about you get on with it?
20Two time Republican presidential hopeful, Ron Paul, announces his retirement from politics.
20Ah, that was a pretty good couple of hours playing video games and, wait, what's that? Oh, I'm a child molester now? That's news to me!
20Homosexuality is a sin because you can't keep it in the fridge.
20Another school shooting; this time in Atlanta.
20Taking the kids for fast-food? Don't forget your gun, in case another customer bothers you.
20Coroner: "Drinking 10 litres of Coke a day for years may have been a causal factor in a woman's death". The family "did not consider Coke was harmful because its labels do not contain warning signs". Maybe a baby being born without enamel on its teeth might have been a sign.
20What does it all mean? UK government permits gay marriage: nada. Pope Benedict resigns: Vatican struck by lightning twice. St. Peter's Basilica being a tall building on a hill with a lightning rod during an electrical storm is, naturally, just a coincidence.
20Melba Ketchum's Bigfoot DNA paper has been released, but there are a few problems with it... (It's this joke come to life.)
20Washington Post headline: "Faith Groups Increasingly Lose Gay Rights Fight." HELLFIRE WARNING!!!: The poll number on this "What is going on in the world?" entry bears the mark of the beast!!! Click the green arrow at your own peril!!! (I.e., this is poll entry number 666.)
20Another day, another round of gay sex, blackmail and corruption allegations at the Vatican.
20Vermont caves to the anti-vaccine crowd.
20North Korean Women Encouraged to Choose from 18 Official Hairstyles, Men Get 10. [No, not The Onion]
20Quebecois Catholic priest charged with, ah, f**k it, you know the drill....
20Deacon in the Archdiocese of Baltimore caught with child porn (which the genius stored in his on-line Verizon account).
20Fuck the Establishment Clause
20WikiLeaks unleashes the motherlode on Henry Kissinger: 2 million classified US documents from 1973-1976, five times the size of Cablegate. Have fun!
20Rather than tackle any kind of actual issue, Oklahoma's house is busy making it perfectly clear they hate marriage equality to send a message to the Supreme Court. 84 vote in favour of a "one man one woman" affirmation, every democrat in favour of gay marriage walks away.
20Looks like Mars might be a quicker trip than we thought.
20Sorry Sam and Ann: An imam just helped the Mounties prevent an Al Qaeda-inspired terrorist attack in Canada.
20After almost twenty years of the bill languishing without a vote, Rhode Island is now extremely likely to pass same-sex marriage, which would bring the number of states that allow it into the double digits.
20America's answer to school shootings, part deux: bulletproof whiteboards.
20Atoms star in smallest ever film
20After being held hostage for seven weeks by Somali pirates, a merchant naval captain gives talk to Women's Institute about his ordeal and is then asked to pick the best-dressed pirate.
20The rest of us agree, but would the word "off".
20House Republicans have voted in favor of ending overtime pay, in favor of more days off.
20Two years after the apocalypse, Harold Camping's Family Radio still exists—but maybe not for much longer.
20Google to Russia and the IOC on the eve of the Sochi opening ceremonies: Shame on you.
20Let's see how this turns out, in the light of the protest against SOPA and PIPA.
20"An Oxford University researcher and author specializing in neuroscience has suggested that one dayreligious fundamentalism may be treated as a curable mental illness."
20RationalWiki predicts a backslide into the dark ages, dogs and cats living in harmony, babies aborting other babies, etc., because has stopped trying to limit access to morning-after contraceptives.
20Edward Snowden granted the Guardian a Q&A session. Snowden: "All I can say right now is the US Government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped." RW does not offer investment advice, but perhaps you might wish to invest in popcorn futures.
20Start chilling the champagne, but don't defrost the steaks yet. Scientists believethey have discovered how cancer spreads through the body, and it's expected that it should be relatively easy to halt.
20Another triumph for Christian education.
20Bigotry + stupidity.
20Yay! Gay Marriage becomes legal in England and Wales. Not so yay: It's not happening in Scotland, and if you're transgender you have to get your spouse's consent to get legal gender recognition.
20Is the government of Ukraine providing wingnut welfare?
20The Conservatives' darling, Halliburton, pleads guilty to destruction of evidence relating to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
20Americans who believe entirely in evolution jump to 1-in-5. (sigh) Fewer than 1/3 Americans oppose creationism in schools.
20Disgruntled Algerians hold Ramadan lunch protest.
20Unfortunately, the loving of boobies in US schools is now federally protected, meaning that children can promote anti–breast cancer with bracelets that humorously reference — gasp — women's mammaries.
20The partisan reporting of American television has been contained: Sun News Network (aka. "Fox News North"), after a months-long farce in which it tried to turn one side of the political spectrum against the CBC and begged regulators to give it mandatory coverage, will now die a slow death.
20Nahla Mahmoud, a Sudanese woman in the UK has spoken out against Sharia law and got death threats. The UK police won't help, advise her not to anger those who threaten her. Petitions are organised in Nahla Mahmoud's defense.Protect Nahla Mahmoudhe Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain needs your help
20On the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of the coup d'etat that toppled Iran's democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh and replaced him with the Shah, the CIA admits "Yep, that was totally us."
20Due to a slip-up in the redaction process, the secret we all knew anyway is now no longer secret: Google has been receiving national security letters from our good friends.
20Hey, I never got awarded for not working.
20Fundamentalist Christians in Kansas are suing the state board of education over the new standardized science curriculum because, well... read the legal team's press release and weep.
20Yet another flash crash for Bitcoin, this one after the Silk Road website is busted Update: Here's the link that pwned him. So much for calling yourself "Dread Pirate Roberts."
20Murdering Nazi filth's granddaughter is... Nigerian.
20Because of this letter (dated five days before the government shutdown) from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to all members of Congress, it would seem that another unspoken reason for the shutdown (and the looming threat of default) is owed to the bishops' demand that birth control and abortion coverage be stripped from Obamacare no matter what the consequences.
20Saudi cleric declares fatwa against space travel to Mars.
20The War on Drugs hits a new bottom.
20The GOP leadership finally realize that shacking up with the Tea Party was a bad idea.
20A Conservative MP, a radical feminist and an evangelical Christian walk into a bar try to ban online porn in Canada.
20At the end of the day, Pope Francis is still Catholic.
20Net neutrality is dead in the US.
20A little bit of advice: If there is a word that you won't be able to ban, it's "Nazi."
20It seems Nigel Farage actually read the UKIP's policy manifesto, finally. He came to the conclusion that it's "drivel".
20GOP Governor goes hunting for welfare fraud; Finds basically none. Demands crackdown anyway.
20Climate scientist Michael Mann sues good ol' Mark Steyn for defamation over being compared to Jerry Sandusky for his global warming research (which the NR says is, of course, all evil librul lies). You know what's going to happen.
20Quebec set to become the first North American jurisdiction to legalize euthanasia.
20Turns out the Nazis did not swim with giant prehistoric sharks. Who'd have guessed? Not Discovery Channel, it seems.
20 Ah...that god fella....what a trickster.....hiding the biggest virus ever seen in the permafrost 24,000 years before creation to save it from the floods so it could be newly discovered in the thaw!
20Newsmax wants to start their own TV channel to compete with Fox News. "Our goal is to be a little more boomer-oriented, more information-based rather than being vituperative and polarizing,"
20"What personality trait do you look for in a mate?" asks Jenny McCarthy. "Someone who's willing to vaccinate the kids," answers Twitter.
20Three California state senators suspended following independent corruption charges. Sen. Yee in particular for selling illegal weapons while passing gun control legislation. Of note liberal friends: "we" do the hypocrisy and corruption thing too.
202000 Moonies marry in mass ceremony of arranged marriages.
20Lavrov: Mr. President, the men we put into Novorossiya still aren't giving up the OSCE observers. *Putin frowns*
Lavrov: And the Americans seem to know where your fortune is. *Putin chokes on Chicken Kiev*
20Another day, another embarrassingly bonkers UKIP candidate: UKIP candidate who called David Cameron a ‘gay loving nutcase’ suspended. Be warned: the CAPS LOCK is almost as bad as the homophobia. Farage has literally claimed nutpicking: that the media are unfairly persecuting him by accurately reporting what his party's candidates are saying on social media.
20Right-wing cranks plan to march on Washington D.C. this Friday to unseat the President, in "Operation American Spring." Get your popcorn ready!
20Concern grows over the rise of Buddhist fundamentalism/
20$5 million in bribe money was exchanged to get Qatar to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. So, so shocked!
20Only a Mormon can call a Mormon Mormon...
20Russia keeps forgetting these aren't her colonies anymore
20Peer review at work: we have just unseen a couple of planets.
20The Mall Galleries freaks out over a woman's pubic hair in a portrait.
20Kentucky church hires sex offender pastor who was "forgiven by God" of his previous actions. Any guesses on how well that worked out?
20Hee! Pastafarian fights for his right to wear a colander on his head in driving licence photo.
20How to Win Friends and High Fives in the Oklahoma GOP
20The Fake Terror Threat Used to Justify Bombing Syria Update: Oh yes, a "fake" terror threat.
20Thomas Duncan, infected with Ebola in Dallas, Texas, died today. However, it is unknown if this is because the experimental drug ZMapp failed, because of its late administration, or otherwise. One thing is certain: Mr. Duncan's tragic passing is sure to help deal with rampant justified fear paranoia in the United States about further spread of Ebola.
20A Puerto Rico Federal Judge upholds the ban on same sex marriage in the territory, citing a 1971 Supreme Court Case and the "Polygamy and Incest next!" argument. Consider a betting pool on when the 1st circuit appeals court shreds the ruling.
20Ottawa, Canada: scene of a Unknown Soldier guard shooting and a gunman in the Parliament Building (Thank this man, because it could have been a hell of a lot worse.)
20In the wake of Mark Driscoll's resignation, Mars Hill Church disbands.
20Perfect record ruined! U.S. Appeals Court upholds gay marriage bans in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. (Dubya really knew how to pick judges.)
20Gorbachev warns of a new cold war caused by the west not handling the end of the old one correctly.
20Mexico's ongoing cartel problems seem to be going critical: Protesters Set Presidential Palace On Fire. (They're protesting missing students believed to have been murdered by the cartels and corrupt police.)
20Indiana cops are a bunch of dicks.
20The Satanists are at it again: Holiday Satanic Display Approved By Florida Capitol
20Non-biblical vocabulary word of the day -- Gynandromorphism -- courtesy of the half-male, half-female cardinal (this type, not this type) found in northwestern Illinois.
20Evolutionism goes on beyond zebra mere Darwinism! (actual title far more inflammatory) “Under certain conditions, matter inexorably acquires the key physical attribute associated with life”
20It's happening: the SCOTUS has granted writs of certiorari (an announcement of a plan to review lower court findings) to the same-sex marriage cases in Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and will decide if the 14th amendment protects it.
20Republicans (Even James Inhofe!) admit Global Warming is happening, but deny it's human-caused
20"Perhaps a good paddling in school may keep me from having to put a bullet in him later.” Look, NRA, even this big-time firearms collector of a WIGOer thinks your guys are insane.
20Aging dictator president Robert Mugabe took a tumble at Harare Int'l Airport on the 4th of February. For some reason, the Zimbabwean government issued a denial that he ever fell in the first place and reportedly tried to force journalists to delete evidence. Instead, it goes viral.
20There's an excellent reason why Charles Manson called off his impending wedding: she only wanted him for his body.
20 Chicago cop Richard Zuley, renowned for his psychopathy professionalism and effectiveness, exported his techniques to Guantanamo Bay.
20Deadly antibiotics-resistant CRE invades Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, kills 2 and leaves more than 160 others exposed.
20As well as energy companies, guess who's been funding climate-change denier Willie Soon? That's right. And, he's been carelessly forgetting to mention the conflict of interest in his papers. $oon, however, says that he's been smeared.
20Your hate speech has a messaging problem if you have trouble identifying who you hate. And the Swastika is not helping.
20The Hartford minor league baseball team will be named the Yard Goats.
20Health Canada approves fake natural remedy, cooked up by a TV crew.
20Lee Kuan Yew, the autocratic founder and architect of modern Singapore, has passed away.
20Stupid shit Republicans did this week #4346567: Sen. David Vitter (R-La) filed an amendment with the Senate Budget Committee that would "strike out a provision that makes it easier for Washington elites to force Americans to give up their dollar bills and use dollar coins, like Europeans."
20Qatari sports club accused of coercing migrant workers into running a half-marathon in jeans and flip-flops in an attempt to beat a world record. No, this isn't an April Fools story.
20Sarah Palin having trouble selling speeches because of perception as "a blithering idiot"
19Partying like it's 1909- Interracial couple denied marriage license.
19Vanity Fair visits Ham's Creation Museum; says "This tacky, risible, and rational tableau defies belief, beggars faith," amongst other similar comments.
19Simon Singh wins a landmark victory against the British Chiropractic Association and is allowed to use the defence of "fair comment" in his statements. The BCA maintain that "their reputation was damaged" in the incident, which is very true, just not in the way they think.
19The Times cedes the UK Internet news market to the Guardian and the BBC. And just to make sure, they're keeping that darned Google out. Dear Rupert, don't let the paywall hit your arse on the way out.
19Saudi woman beats up thought cop, risks lashing. (Although the burka might mean they'll have trouble getting a positive ID...)
19How civilized.
19If somebody pulls your top down against your explicit wishes... You consented to having your boobs filmed and the video comercially sold.
19Center for Science in the Public Interest wins case to have Coke's Vitaminwater declared nothing more than a "a sugary snack food".
19FBI: "Using our seal in your Wikipedia thing is illegal!" Mike Godwin: "Arkell v. Pressdram."
19Adolf Hitler taken away by social services. Really.
19First Wikileaks leaks details about the Afghan war mess, then its founder suddenly finds himself facing rape allegations. Let the conspiracy theories begin. UPDATE: Charges dropped
19Koran BBQ is off Update: Or not
19 While the debate rages on in New York, a mosque-community center complex is going up in Memphis. And until they're done building it, a pastor in Cordova is letting them pray at his church.
19Sarah Palin makes an endorsement for the Pennsylvania Senate race. The recipient of her endorsement is running in West Virginia.
19OMG, A mosque! A dirty filthy mosque! Stand together folks, fight off this menace, we will not be.... Oh wait, that's just a Christian Church with a domed roof. Never Mind.
19The Russian parliament, after 70 years, admits that Stalin was responsible for the Katyn massacre. Russian Communist Party legislators bawl like babies at the prospect of blaming St. Stalin for anything.
19Julian Assange has been detained in London. UPDATE #1: Bail denied. UPDATE #2: And what Swedish sex crime did Assange allegedly violate? In Sweden, mutual consent to sex includes the woman's (or women's -- hey, it's Sweden after all) exclusive right choose to use or NOT use a condom. The Swedes call violations of this law "sex by surprise," which carries a 5000 kronor (about $715) fine. (Wait! He's being held without bail and threatened with extradition for the equivalent of a high-level misdemeanor?)
19SoccerNon-marital sexBoozeQatar. Spot the odd one out. And if you're gay and want to go to see the World Cup in 2022, well FIFA boss's official advice seems to be 'Don't have sex'. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present Sepp Blatter - Tosser of the Year.--User:Stunteddwarf
19Rather than apologise or back down about her use of the term "Blood Libel," Sarah Palin proves the old adage, "If a hole is in the wrong place, then no amount of digging is going to put it in the right place". Update: Palin's polling plummets, but is it a permanent thing, and far more importantly, can I shake the need to use alliteration in a WIGO?
19CNN's Erick Erickson calls for mass armed uprising and bloodshed if Roe v. Wade is not struck down.
19Captain Obvious department: Oral sex leads to sex.
19Tea Partiers want a "Christian conservative" as speaker of the Texas House of Representatives; not the Jew who is there now.
19George W. Bush avoids potential arrest by skipping a talk he was to give in Switzerland.
19Couldn't happen to a nicer guy: Indiana's Dep AG loses job, for advocating the use of live ammo on WI protesters.
19Woman Forced To Watch Her Baby Die Because Nebraska Anti-Abortion Law Prohibited Doctor From Acting
19This is not an April fool's joke: Republicans claim the new "force of law" budget bill passed in the House can become law without action by the Senate or the President. Maybe they need a refresher on how a bill becomes a law.
19Palestine begins UN statehood process.
19Atlas may have shrugged, but nobody cared.
19There really is no conceivable reason to implement gun control.
19The Westboro Baptist Church had some difficulties picketing a funeral in Mississippi.
19In the UK, new EU trade regulations controlling the sale of traditional herbal medicines come into force.
19Things you don't expect to hear: Rush Limbaugh saying "Thank God for President Obama". In other news, bin Laden is finding Hell to be extremely cold. UPDATE: He was being sarcastic. He's an asshole for doing itand I'm an idiot for falling for it.
19Donald Trump announces that he won't run for president. Could this be because of NBC's ultimatum to him that they would say "you're fired" to him if he did run? In an obviously unrelated story, NBC announced a few hours earlier the renewal of The Celebrity Apprentice with or without The Donald.
19Terrence O'Brien, president of Chicago's Metropolitan Water Reclamation District claims that by not removing the tons of untreated human waste from the Chicago River, he's saving lives: If the river were cleaned, people would swim in it and then they might drown. You don't want children to drown, do you?
19After a great deal of Palin related news this weekend, Fox posts a picture of Tina Fey as Sara Palin during a news segment. Comments on the story below absolve Fox of any mistakes, and state that it was a liberals fault.
19Yay! We kicked out all the illegal immigrants who take our jobs! Yay! Wait, what now? We've got no-one to do the work, and have destroyed our crop harvest?! Nooo!
19I'm a maverick who opposes President Obama's campaign against Libya, largely because I've been trying to arm Gaddafi for years. My name is John McCain, and I approve this message.
19You can't try a President and his staff in America for war crimes, but you can legally murder a black guy for little to no evidence.
19Orthodox Jews just aren't Orthodox enough for some; girls attending school in long sleeved shirts and ankle length skirts (ooh, sexy...) suffer a barrage of protests, which include hurling abuse, eggs and feces. (ooh, double sexy...)
19Last week, a French publication was firebombed for criticising Islam - rather than shut up shop and give in, they respond brilliantly.
19PolitiFact's Fail of the Year: In April, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) pushed a bill through the House of Representatives that would have made Medicare a privatized voucher program, essentially gutting it. About five weeks later, PolitiFact said that a "throw-granny-from-the-cliff" ad claiming that the Ryan plan would privatize Medicare was "Mostly True." Fast-forward another seven months (December 20) when PolitiFact names its Lie of the Year: The Democratic Party claim that "Republicans voted to end Medicare". Dems are now pissed because PolitiFact lopped off the last half of the claim: "Republicans voted to end Medicare as we know it." Paul Krugman is especially miffed.
19Now here's a great ePetition to sign: In keeping with the great lady's legacy, Margaret Thatcher's state funeral should be funded and managed by the private sector to offer the best value and choice for end users and other stakeholders.
19Fox News Shrink: Newt "open marriage" Gingrich's infidelity might make for a better President.
19The moment when billionaires beg to pay more tax.
19Newt Gingrich, for the love of god, please stop talking.
19Thanks to climate change, the USDA has changed the planting zone map for the first time since 1990. The next round of global warming denialism shall commence in 5...4...3...
19Uganda's Minister of Ethics and Integrity orders gay rights meeting to close. "You cannot allow terrorists to organise to destroy your country," he says.
19Obama: "I want to reduce the amount of US nukes to around 300." Conservatives: "300 warheads is nowhere near enough! It won't last us the nuclear winter!"
19Even Republicans are aghast at the Clown Car of Candidates.
19Shorter Santorum: The Constitution makes me want to throw up.
19When your pastor is convicted of lewd conduct with teenagers and banned from unsupervised contact with children, what's the solution? Ban kids from the church.
19Goodbye Jamie! One more left to go.
19Bite my shiny metal school board ass!
19Lesbian proposal at an Ottawa Senators game. Make sure you have Kleenex within easy reach.
19Science and best practices be damned, in AZ, women may soon be defined as pregnant 2 weeks before conception.
19Trump demands Scotland not build "ugly, noisy and dangerous" wind turbines, fearing they will ruin the view from his golf course.
19Hello, RationalWiki. While I've been on hiatus due to recent drama, this ignorant prick is forcing me to return to the site on a near-daily basis. So let's cut a deal. Give this asshole the criticism he deserves without me, and you'll have the added benefit of refraining my infamous editing record. Thanks - OS
19Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni - Extinct. Due to goats.
19From HuffPo, two Republicans vie for oddest claim of the week: #1) An Upstate New York congressional candidate states that "People now don't die from prostate cancer, breast cancer and some of the other things" because of innovations that he claims didn't exist 10 years ago (although some of them have actually existed since the 1990s); #2) An 86-year-old New Hampshire state legislator claims that sending children to kindergarten has caused a 400 percent increase in crime.
1950. Fucking. Years.
19Everyone point and laugh: Apple ordered to take out adverts saying Samsung have not actually copied them.
19Corning goes to Washington to complain that their corporate tax rate is too high and is harming the company. Corning's actual tax rate for 2011? -0.2%. Minus. As in, they got a refund.
19In 1978, under pressure to stop looking like a bunch of racists, the president of the Mormon church had a divine revelation that black people were no longer cursed and could be admitted to the Mormon priesthood. Four weeks before the 2012 election, under pressure to shore up the evangelical base among Republican Party voters, Billy Graham met with Mitt Romney and seems to have had a similar revelation that Mormonism is not a cult after contending for all of his professional life that it is. (Still cults in Graham's world: Unitarianism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientologists, "Spiritists" and the Unification Church.)
19Another in a list of firsts: Congress will have its first Hindu Representative. Ommm.
19Not Onion: RyanAir CEO thinks that seat belts on planes are unnecessary, wants to offer standing-room only seats
19Recent Conservative attempts to re-open the abortion debate in Canada backfire terribly, as support for unrestricted access to abortion spikes amongst the population.
19You'll never walk... alone.
19Saudi religious leader calls for gang rape of Syrian girls and women. "He specified that the 'intercourse marriages' last only a few hours in order to give each fighter a turn." UPDATE! story retracted
192012 has been the hottest year ever in the US. Heeeere we go!
19Not Onion: Star Wars game segregates gay characters onto 'gay planet'
19Meryl Dorey steps down as leader of the Australian Vaccination Network, which will also stop publishing its newsletter.
19With this rise of rape culture, we're committed to protecting rape victims and bringing their abusers to justice. Haha, just kidding, get fucked (again). Signed, Washington DC cops
19Sorry for the triviality, but ...: Tenessee man wants his "gay" dog killed.
19"Targeted killing" = The new "extraordinary rendition."
19Irish government to, after much waiting, apologise for the atrocity known as the Magdalene laundries...while another high-up institution stays silent.
19Dennis Rodman & Kim Jong-un: BFFs.
19There might be life under Lake Vostok. We await the marine biologist/exobiologist nerdgasms in May.
19Scientists say Earth is hotter today than in (most) of the last 11,000 years, suck it global warming doubters!
19Google doesn't pay its taxes.
19Georgian Republican senator: We need, uh, to stop gay marriage because, um, um, um, only gay people are the ones who'll get married just for legal benefits! Wait, what?
19Brain mapping proposed by Obama Will this bring out the cranks?
19Kickstarter rejects all manner of sane pledge drives, but accepts a pledge drive for an anti-gravity device from someone who rejects mere current physics and compares himself to Copernicus. Here's the paper ... on viXra.
19Bitcoin advocates burst into tears as Ron Paul says he isn't a fan.
199/11 landing gear appears to have been found
19Teen arrested for science experiment gone wrong
19Niall Ferguson has launched off the deep end... for real this time.
19Those missing women in Cleveland that were found? Sylvia Browne previouslysaid one of them was dead.
19Stephen Harper's Chief of Staff resigns after writing a $90,000 check to one of the most corrupt members of the Senate. Whoops.
19Texas Judge competes to be biggest 'roach of the year. He's got some competition, but he's determined to win.The Judge's name is Roach, that's why I described him as a…nevermind
19Meet the new Republican superstar, Louisiana State Senator Elbert Guillory. Guillory just switched parties. Why? He thinks Democrats are the real racists and the Republicans are supportive of blacks in part because Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas were Republicans over 100 years ago. Apparently someone's never heard of the Southern Strategy or the red states' new voter registration laws....
19And there goes the IRS scandal. (Obligatory)
19Predictably, Prop 8 sore losers are sore losers. UPDATE: The Prop 8 supporters obviously didn't read the two key sentences in the decision, as written by Chief Justice Roberts -- "We have never before upheld the standing of a private party to defend the constitutionality of a state statute when state officials have chosen not to. We decline to do so for the first time here." So it shouldn't be a big surprise that they got a quick "nope" in reply.
19After the death of DOMA, and lacking an understanding boththe amendment process and basic math, United States House of Representatives member Tim Huelskamp(R-KS) introduces a Constitutional Amendment to ban same sex marriage.
19Anti-government and anti-graft protests in Bulgaria, which have been going on for 40 days contiguously, have just become radicalized and violent: blocked the National Assembly building and scuffled with the police. This happens in a matter of hours afterEU justice commissioner Viviane Reding backed the protesters, saying that she agreed with them that corruption and organized crime should be fought to the extreme and that there is a serious need of reforms in the country, mainly in its judicial system.
19Your Government Spying at Work: The NSA not have the technology to search through its own employees' emails.
19The OED willupdate its entry for marriage to include gay unions in response to gay marriage becoming law. Cue predictable screams that this is a Marxist plot to give us all cancer from the Daily Mail comments.
19With capitalism failed and fascism unappealing, workers in a shuttered Greek factorygive seizing the means of production a try.
19US wants its police to be able to enforce US law in Canada during cooperative US-Canada border activities. Up next: Arresting Canadians in Canada for acts that would be criminal in the US. Oh, wait...
19After enduring one of the worst layovers ever, Edward Snowden has received asylum in Russia for one year and has left Sheremetyevo Airport.
19China has released Glorious Mission Online, a Call of Duty-like game about the People's Liberation Army. One mission has you defending the Senkaku Islands from the Japanese. What could possibly go wrong with that?
19You know what, let's name him Lucifer and call it a day.
19In recently declassified documents, the CIA finally admits that "Area 51" exists and gives greater insight into the U-2 spy plane program. (Brace for those who only got as far as the headline to immediately assumed that the CIA just confirmed every conspiracy theory ever...)
19Escalation: U.K. security agents have raided the offices of The Guardian. Update: The Guardian destroyed its own drives rather than allow them to be seized.
19Fukushima is nows>African tribal conditions at INES Level 3.
19The Great Shitstorm shall begin. Obama will wait for UN test results and a Congress vote before attacking Syria. Update: Happy now, McCain?
19A milestone for gay marriage since DADT was struck down: The first-ever same-sex spouse of a US military veteran has been buried at a national military cemetery.
19Post-grad: Bar magnets mean that gay marriage is, scientifically, wrong. Of course this is in Nigeria.
19Here we go again: At least 12 killed in a mass shooting at Washington Navy Yard. Murderer was heavily armed.
19Holy water now gives you holy shit.
19OECD nations look at numeracy and literacy rates, America humiliated again. The Anti-intellectuals must be pleased.
19Blonde girl in Dublin is actually related to her Roma parents after all. Nobody said institutional racism. (except for the family)
19Nuke, nuke, nuke, nuke Iran!
19Advice to an Oxford University Rugby club: Get 'free pussy' by spiking the woman's drink (also here)
19One does not combine Liberty University with Gattaca. (Also, what was the point of this? Accusing Democrats of wanting liberal eugenics? Seems a likely Google search term for a nutbar like him.)
19School bus driver gets fired for leading prayer on a school bus.
19Allegations of torture and war crimes in Afghanistan.
19The latest target of the Christian Right is Pat Robertson, yes Pat Robertson?
19Remember the Red Lobster waitress, who was left the n-word as a tip, and received $10,000 in donations instead? Turns out one handwriting analysis later, the client's suing the waitress and restaurant for defamation.
19Frothy's film flops.
19The Free World is once again in peril. The Nazis have Tila Tequila. Although the Nazis seem a little skeptical of their newest recruit.
19It seems the GOP wants to play with fire again.
19Harold Camping has been raptured.
19Stealing bikini calendars for Jesus.
19Canada's Supreme Court unanimously voids the country's prostitution laws. They stay in effect until either Parliament has enacted a new law or a year has passed. Update: The legal precedent this has set means that assisted suicide may be on its way.
19Utah appeals to the judge who threw out their same-sex ban to block gay marriages until the appeal process is worn out. Judge Shelby: DENIED
19There's a word for someone who acts like you're their best friend when around you and depends on you for support, and who then tells your secrets to your rival: Israel
19We've made (eukaryotic) life!
19Edward Snowden won't be pressured to end asylum, Russia says.
19Britain's immigration minister resigns after being caught hiring an illegal immigrant cleaner.
19London abortion counsellor tells clients "having an abortion might make you a sexual abuser"
1942% of Americans believe astrology is scientific. That number jumps to 58% among millennials. OTOH, this may indicate literacy issues rather than scientific knowledge issues if the USA is anything like Europe.
19Conservative Christian bozo, Brent Bozell is getting dropped faster than a hot potato, after it's revealed he put his name to articles and books that he didn't write.
19Arizona is pulling a Kansas. And while the Kansas State Senate was smart enough to kill the Jim Crow nostalgia party, this is the governor of Arizona.
19Countdown to wingnut response of "See, there is a international movement that agrees that Evolution is wrong, and it's not just Christians." in 3...2...1...
19The Sword of Damocles is over Putin's head.
19Mr. Goatachev, tear down this wall!
19Remember Arizona's hate the gays religious freedom bill, that Jan Brewer vetoed? Turns out she helped work on the wording.
19Obama sends NSA reform to Congress, probably to put the House GOP in a hard place. In full irony, Rand Paul asks why he isn't doing it via executive power.
19Dietary supplement linked to almost 100 cases of hepatitis.
19When you're too much of a racist douche for the UKIP...
19Boulder, Colorado-based youth pastor Jason Roberson pleads guilty to charges of sexual exploitation of children and stalking. Remember this was based on the Injustice System of plea bargaining.
1977-year-old Michigan pastor convicted of rape and sexual abuse of three underage girls. According to a prosecutor there was family pressure and pressure in the church to keep things quiet.
19United States children are exploited working on tobacco farms.
19Atheists, humanists and religious allies raise over $900,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Those damn do-gooder atheists.
19Dinesh D'Souza: Soon-to-be convicted felon. Update: He's a crook!
19Seems it's not just the Catholic Church that's good at covering up the rape of children...
19Meanwhile, in Northern Ireland: why hate Catholics when you can hate the UK's highest-ranking Chinese politician?
19At what point, exactly, do mass shootings stop becoming "news"?
19Of the $830 billion the US spent on Iraq, 93% went to the Pentagon while 6% to the State Department/USAID. The results.
19Antonin Scalia: school prayer is like the devil's music.
19It was bound to happen: After Native Americans wage a badass campaign to change the name of the Washington Redskins, the owners now have to seriously consider it. (Speaking of patents...)
19Hillary Clinton, as a young lawyer, did a good job in 1975. 39 years later, manufactroversy and cant: "Why aren't you guys giving this rape victim a voice?"
19How about this: Unlike Eric Cantor, Thad Cochran just survived in his primary against a flaming ball of crazy by embracing Democratic and black voters (the first time a Southern Republican may have done so in decades). And the flaming ball of crazy won't concede.
19New pterosaur species found to live in social groups.
19U.S. Supreme Court bars laws prohibiting anti-abortion activists from obstructing abortion clinic entrances while protesting. (Meanwhile, the Hobby Lobby trainwreck will be decided on Monday.)
19Because Israel-Gaza can't get any more depressing: "On both sides, there's a total lack of empathy that I've never seen before."
19Pope "admits about 2% of Catholic clergy are paedophiles". (Caveat: "But a Vatican spokesman said the quotes in the newspaper did not correspond to Pope Francis's exact words." - but then they always say that when he starts to look too liberal.)
19"The irony is that some of the states that have been the loudest in opposing EPA climate regulations have the most to gain in terms of actual economic interest." Guess the governor.
19Comics artist uses DMCA to try to take down a blog that criticizes the way he draws women. Fortunately, rationality can take place once people talk to each other.
19Collection of Tweets from military veterans reacting to the police response in Ferguson.
19Homeopathic Ebola drugs to be supplied at no cost to Liberia
19The LA Times, now AP, reporter who cleared all his CIA stories with the CIA.
19Bitcoin: TO THE MOON!! (Dipped below US$300/BTC earlier today, getting to more than the cost of the electricity to mine. The sound you hear is panicking Ponzi bagholders... or Jupiter-size special pleading.)
19After incidents surrounding Middlesborough and more recently Kris Cook, Psychic Sally Morgan came under fire when footage of a skeptic distributing flyers getting death threats and homophobic insults from Morgan's husband and son-in-law was released. Now, Morgan has announced that she has fired her husband and son-in-law over this and says she doesn't know what will happen to her marriage. Perhaps she could consult a psychic.
19Satanic Panic: how British agents stoked supernatural fears in The Troubles
19The Republicans have taken control of the US Senate and retain control of the House. In other news, Marijuana is legal in Alaska/Oregon/DC and we have 100 women in Congress. Update: Well that didn't take long.
19Hypothetically, if a bill was tabled with the name "No Social Security for Nazis Act," would anyone (in the most polarized Congress of all time) vote against it? So far, no.
19Persecution of atheism and secular humanism is on the rise ... as these ideas become more widely accepted as legitimate. (A report on the International Humanist and Ethical Union's Freedom of Thought Report.)
19Problem: People keep robbing stores. Solution: Ban guns. Ban hoodies everywhere in Oklahoma’s public!
19British farmer forced to turn murderous Nazi cows into sausages. [No, not The Onion]
19Under Abbott's education "reforms", the Australian government will fund education in homeopathy, iridology, naturopathy, and other forms of alt-med nonsense.
19BENGHAZI WAS A COVER-UP! Of course, we mean the Republican manufactroversy.
19Only in Florida, I guess...
19Anonymous reports its first successes in taking out Daesh Twitter accounts.
19NY GOP State Senator Thomas Croci thinks a "terrorist registry", modelled on sex offender registries, will stop terrorism. "This legislation will send a clear message to all terrorists — Stay out of New York," he actually said.
19GOP district delegate fatally shoots herself in the eye adjusting her bra holster. (Only good lingerie with a gun can stop bad lingerie with a gun.)
19Another day, another shooting spree in US-America. Sometimes it hardly feels newsworthy anymore, especially in a state where gun deaths outnumber deaths from auto accidents.
19The transitional animal the flying kitty weasel
19Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Daesh.
19UKIP leader Nigel Farage's election bid is to force the children of migrants out of free education for five years in order to help fund rich private schools the state.
19Remember how Boehner invited Bibi to Congress and to mess with the nuclear negotiations? Totally Obama's fault.
19More on the FDA's homeopathy inquiry.
19The University of Alabama elects its first black SGA president in 39 years. The SGA Senate refuses to confirm any of his appointments, preventing the consideration of any other business. Sound familiar?
18Hate Crimes Act passes (aka Matthew Shepard Act)
18 RIP Miep Gies, you did your best and thank you for your courage.
18Haiti needs your help. Contribute here.
18Using carefully chosen, bipartisan language, Phyllis Schlafly calls the Democrats the "Party of Death". Yes, that seems fair and balanced all right.
18Turns out Laura Bush is pro-choice and for gay marriage. Another kick in the nuts for the Republican Party.
18Hydrogen fueled Methane monsters live on Titan, scientists say.
18American goes to Pakistan, plans to kill bin Laden. With a freakin' sword.
18A Missouri farmer has posted a billboard on his land asking "Are you a producer or a parasite?" Under the question he claims that Democrats are the party of parasites. Naturally, he doesn't think that the $1.1 million dollars in farm subsidies that he has taken from the federal government since 1995 makes him a parasite.
18Scientology and other cults in Australia are asked to show their public benefit if they want to maintain their tax-exempt status.
18How to kill a political party:Replace your (loony) ethnic leader with your (loony) female loser!
18In Iceland the mayor of Reykjavik was "too busy" to attend the opening of a gay pride festival - so he sent his friend instead.
181 in 5 Americans think Obama is a Muslim. In other news: 1 in 5 Americans is a complete dumbfuck.
18Well that's one less way in which the Catholic Church can discriminate against gays.
18Mexico's Supreme Court OK's same-sex marriage in Mexico City. Cardinal claims mayor of Mexico City bribed Court. Mayor sues cardinal for defamation.
18Glenn Beck claims he held Washington's handwritten copy of his first Inaugural Address. The National Archives politely disagrees.
18In 1972, the Nixon Administration made the first claims that pot is a gateway drug. A newly published University of New Hampshire study refutes this claim. Instead, stress factors like unemployment are causal factors for illicit-drug use. This new study backs up this 12-year study published in 2006 by the University of Pittsburgh.
18The US accounts for 46.5% of all military spending in the world. The second largest spender is China, with 6.6%. Can the US continue to maintain such vast expenditure, and how has it come to be so large?
18Oh those heathen British. The leader of a paedophile church leaves crowds wanting far less it seems.
18United States District Judge in California rules Don't Ask, Don't Tell to be unconstitutional.
18As 33 Chilean miners escape through 700 metres of narrow pipe a lone sewer worker has his own lucky escape through more than 1600 metres of narrow pipe.
18Anti-matter caught for the first time. You try and come up with a punchline for that.
18The Pope changes his mind, Condoms are okay now, but only in certain cases such as being a homosexual prostitute. More details to come on Tuesday.
18Pakistani court prevents their President from pardoning a Christian mother, who was sentenced to death for insulting Islam. Original story here.
18Are YOU male? Are YOU female? Do YOU like things? Do YOU buy stuff? Why not see how YOUR money goes to helping politicians? Want more? Come back after this news story.
18Russians decide that, as things stand, they have little chance to get their Лучсмерти™ (DeathRay™) into orbit, and so decide to build and launch a pod to take care of orbital space debris as well as the odd rogue comet.
18From an Indiana divorce court: When both parents were self-professed Christians, they had joint custody. Now the husband is an agnostic, and the court has suddenly reduced his visitation time to four hours per week.
18Bad Loser (n) (1) Joe Miller
18Guess who used the Canadian Health care System Saint Sarah(from Greg Laden)
18If you're an astronomer, how do you make the world's astrologers have a collective identity crisis? Perform an astronomical survey that shows that the earth, moon, sun and stars have shifted their positions so much over that past 2000 years that (a) the start and end dates of each zodiac sign has changed, and (b) there is now a THIRTEENTH sign! A list of the new start/end dates and the new 13th sign (called Ophiuchus) appears here. TEE HEE!
18Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, "President for Life" of Tunisia, flees the country.
18NASA commemorates all its lost astronauts on the anniversary of the Challenger Explosion.
18Egyptian police forces loyal to Mubarak were some of the looters, in order to create the appearance that only Mubarak can guarantee stability.
18The likes of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have been repeating the "Obama is a Red" shtick one too many times, and are going the right way to crash and burn.
18Supreme Court upholds Westboro Baptist Church's right to stage anti-gay protests at funerals of U.S. troops. But only 15% of Fox News fans, normally big on First Amendment rights, support this First Amendment decision. Finding that "Fair & Balanced" thing kinda hard today, are we? UPDATE: WBC vows to "quadruple down" on their hate message.
18Michael Moore makes a fine polemical speech to the Wisconsin public service workers - "America is NOT Broke....400 Americans today together have as much money as half of all Americans combined" (Speech starts at 5:20 in the clip).
18Mike Huckabee has decided the best course of action after last weeks 2 incredibly embarrassing comments, to go completely nuts. He firstly blames the interviewer for bringing up Natalie Portman's pregnancy, which is very clearly disproved by audio transcripts. He then states that he is not responsible (everyone else is) for his idiotic fiction about Obama growing up in Kenya, because "I can't be the dumbest guy in the room and the smartest guy in the room at the same time". Sane people are scratching their heads at this.
18UK Libel Law will be reformed by an Act of Parliament - a positive step for science, journalism, medicine and the anti-crank movement. Public interest will now be a defence. It will likely end libel tourism too.
18Yet more people who were not responsible for the 2007 financial crisis are losing their jobs and seeing their pensions threatened, while those who were actually responsible rub their hands with glee.
18A foxhole-atheist has taken the U.S. Army to task about a mandatory program of Spiritual Fitness Training and a $30 million Spiritual Fitness Center being built at the government's expense.
18Adding insult to injury: Gulf oil spill executives get bonuses for "the best year in safety performance"
18More GOP spending priorities: removing a pro-labor mural from the Department of Labor building in Maine could cost the state $60,000.
18Mitt Romney: Obama was born here. Period.
18Republican committee member and teabagger circulates racist e-mail. But don't worry - she's not a racist!
18Wingnuts are outraged as Superman renounces his US citizenship.
18Teabagger leader: You get the gays out of the military and we'll give you the debt ceiling.
18Are you soon to be Raptured? Have you thought about what may happen to your beloved cat when you're no longer here? Then worry no more, After The Rapture Pet Care will take care of your kitteh for the low, low, one-off fee of $10! Don't delay, sign up today!
18Stupid woman, you need to PLAN ON GETTING RAPED
18Rand Paul, in stopped clock mode, is holding a filibuster to try and force expiration of the Patriot Act, gaining supporters on both sides of the aisle.
18Announcing the winners of Google's Science Fair - do check this every time you feel down after one too many 'creationist science fair' jokes.
18Swede is arrested for trying to achieve nuclear fission in his kitchen
18Americans United slams Rick Perry for his prayer-a-palooza.
188.7 million species on Earth, and that doesn't include bacteria.
18The State of Georgia, for the fourth time, moves closer to executing a man that is almost certainly innocent. Time is running very short for Troy Davis!
18Skeptics, behold! You have been proven wrong as God rewards Texas' faith with lots of bright sunshine, so they can tan and stuff. Update: God has given Texas free heating!
18Al-Qaeda to truthers: fuck off.
18Theresa May: "A judge admitted an illegal immigrant because he had a pet cat. I'm not making this up!" Judge: "Yes you are."
18Glenn Beck on the "Occupy Wall Street" protestors "Marxist radicals:" Capitalists, "they will come for you and drag you into the streets and kill you...they'll kill everybody."
18Perry, Cain, Bachmann, and aides of Mitt Romney openly admit that they would violate the Geneva Conventions if elected. Only Huntsman and Paul disagree.
18McGill Scientist gets 5 million big ones to promote science awareness and to fight woo.
18Tonight on Fox News: is Richard Branson a socialist?
18You know the Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop? Megyn Kelly just made it 50 times funnier.
18Oregon's governor says "no more executions on my watch".
18The Mars Science Laboratory, the largest and most capable rover yet built is on its way to Mars.
18HIV vaccine trial.
18In the most insane bout of anti-intellectualism in the Republican nomination yet, Mitt Romney is attacked for speaking French by a guy who wrote a Ph.D. dissertation on educational policy in colonial Belgian Congo. Guess what language the guys who created those policies wrote them in. Here's a hint: The archives are in Brussels.
18Lamar Smith, author of SOPA, found to be practicing the very same type of piracy that SOPA and PIPA were designed to prosecute.
18And Mr. Family Values wins! Update: These comments say it all.
18New study shows what we pretty much knew all along.
18JC Penney gives One Million Bigots Moms the finger.
18Rick Santorum vows to overturn any Supreme Court ruling that would legalize gay marriage, as well as Roe v. Wade...apparently by using executive powers that don't exist.
18The Heartland Institute pulls a Scientology, threatening to sue people discussing the Denialgate documents. Let us know how that works out for you.
18Wyoming sets up a committee to prepare for the collapse of America. Options include an alternative currency, independent military draft and, for the mountainous, landlocked state... an aircraft carrier?
18Somebody needs to explain to Romney how debates work: "You ask the questions you want; I give the answers I want."
18How to be deemed a "strident" atheist: exist. This advertisement was rejected as "offensive".
18Print is Dead, says Encyclopaedia Britannica.
18And Kony 2012 comes crashing down: Here comes Fapgate.
18Starbucks is being boycotted, of all things, for being pro-gay.
18US anti-abortion group "40 Days for Life" hops over the pond to protest against the British Pregnancy Advisory Service - including filming staff and harassing women in and around the clinics.
18Pro-life terrorism in Wisconsin
18Miss Universe Canada reverses its prior trans rights fail.
18What we knew all along: Conservatives' Trust of Science Hits All Time Low
18Project Steve tops 1200 signatures.
18Not from The Onion: Tennessee Senate warns hand-holding is a 'gateway sexual activity'
18And Jon Huntsman gets kicked out of the Republican Party in 3...2...1...
18Century old tenet of physics overturned: Light is affected, under the right conditions, by magnetism.
18Ouch. Not a time to be a Murdoch.
18After greenhouse gas emissions declined by 1.5% in 2009, they increased by 5.8% in 2010. Thanks economic recovery!
18The Obama Administration turns a surplus for their first month.
18The stupid continues to burn above the 49th parallel.
18Barack Obama: encouraging TRUANCY!
18Greece lurches even closer to chaos as a newly elected, neo-nazi, Golden Dawn MP assaults two female communist MP's live on air and then goes on the run.
18Support for gay marriage comes from a surprising quarter.
18Greek fascist finds himself at the bottom of a hole, keeps digging.
18Hey asshole, you forgot to say goodbye.
18Sheriff Joe keeps fighting the good fight and arrests a six-year-old girl on suspicion of being undocumented.
18Andrew Schlafly now apparently writing textbooks for the UK. "Solar Fusion is a Myth"
18UK comedian Jimmy Carr admits to using a (legal) tax avoidance scheme, apologies and states he will withdraw from it. David Cameron, who has his family fortune nicely tucked away in an offshore account, calls Carr's action "morally wrong". Also: *cough*.
18First? Whatever. Congratulations! You came second!
18There's only one way this will go...Come on Charles, sue Paypal!
18Cure for Nazism found.
18Apparently, a healthcare bill providing care to millions who didn't previously have it is roughly the same as the deaths of six million Jews.
18"When all else fails, vote from the rooftops" - stay classy, gun-crazy America.
18Tired of the Chick-fil-A controversy yet? Well, too bad. A Mississippi congressional candidate says the Mayors of Chicago and Boston should be "introduced to the Second Amendment". Update: Sarah Palin doesn't know what the First Amendment actually means.
18'Allo 'allo 'allo, what's all this then? Not smiling during an Olympic event? You're under arrest!
18Holding a democratic protest against a dictator in a church? Obviously, you hate Christianity!
18Conservatives! Meet your new home: Россия, священная наша держава, Россия любимая наша страна...
18Ohio GOP election official in an email to newspaper: "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban -- read African-American -- voter-turnout machine"
18Tennessee State Senator Stacey (yes, he's a guy) Campfield says it's virtually impossible to get AIDS through heterosexual sex.
18So much for that whole "Religious Freedom" thing.
18Assange may be right after all.
18From the desk of Curiosity: Looks like water used to flow on Mars, guys.
18Fetch..... the comfy chair!
18Felix Baumgartner has just jumped from 128,000 ft.
18You were raped by your teachers? Oh, it's probably your fault.
18The good news for British sceptics is that only 44% of the country believe in God. Unfortunately, there's some bad news too...
18Cue Benghazi conspiracy theories in 3...2...1.. Update: The MIC's fucking around today.
18That these idiots were able to put up a fight against NATO says more about us than them.
18Irony meters, everyone! Arguably the most batshit mayor in the Western world is hit with a blunt-force legal banhammer that would make his minimum sentencing allies drool. Update: Sun NewsCanada's Faux: "The homosexual extremists did it."
18Just give them the goddamn Pulitzer already.
18Catholic Church sets up exorcism hotline in Milan. "Hi, I'm under attack from priestly penises."
18Bullying, what bullying?: School encourages homophobic humiliation as student punishment.
18USA: Israel, what the fuck are you doing? Netanyahu: Doesn't matter, have settlements.
18A bit rusty on the Christmas thing — the "Christmas is all about bum sex" angle is new to us. Wasn't it something about goodwill to all men?
18Mormon senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) arrested for DUI in Virginia despite assertions that he abstains from alcohol as per his religion. Sure, and Larry Craig was just using a "wide stance" in the airport lavatory.
18Church of England to appoint gay bishops, but only if they promise to stop all that icky stuff.
18Hello. I'm the United States government. I hate taxes (but love spending) so much that I might have to to mint a 1 fucking trillion dollar coin so I can pay off my bills. (So it was the debt ceiling - not the fiscal cliff - the craziest idea to rule them all.)
18Joe Biden seeks advice on gun control measures from representatives of video games and movies
18The woman standing in the way of Mark Sanford's second climb up the Appalachia: Stephen Colbert's sister.
18The Canadian bastardization of Fox is falling apart so badly that it is begging the government regulator to inflict itself onto everyone that owns cable. Reading the comments recommended.
18No, you may not bring guns to today's congressional hearing on gun control, senator.
18Fox News has lost 22% of their 25-54 viewers (40% in primetime), yet remains the most watched network.
18The WBC responds to 2 of Fred's granddaughters leaving the flock: "If they continue with the position that they have, those two girls, yeah, they’re going to hell." So much for "blood is thicker than water."
18Does baseball involve getting hit in the head a lot? 'Cause Jose Canseco is trying to explain science, and not doing very well.
18Tom Flanagan (Stephen Harper's Rove doppelgänger and Assange execution advocate): Child porn for everyone! Update: Fired by the CBC. Update II: Fired by the University of Calgary.
18Due to sequestration, NASA suspends all its educational and outreach efforts "pending further review". Some people are already calling the death of the agency...
18How we died for 100 years
18First Neanderthal/modern human hybrid found. 40,000-30,000 years ago, northern Italy. Original paper.
18According to a Pew study, 48% of US Christians say that Jesus will return within the next 40 years.
18The Governor of Iowa wants to increase education spending by $187 million. Guess his party affiliation.
18As one of Pinochet's friends passes away, one of his victims is exhumed
18The callous, dishonest bastard strikes again, only to have the Dept. of Health tell him to fuck off.
18A nonpartisan review confirms everything we already know.
18Serbia and Kosovo sign a historic agreement.
18Bret Easton Ellis, The gay author of American Psycho, has been banned from attending GLAAD's Media Awards night on the grounds that "the gay community" responded negatively to his Tweets. Meanwhile, the guest host is that guy who instituted DADT and DOMA. For an extra punch in the gut, head to the comments section and watch them become gradually more and more homophobic with worrying upvote distribution.
18Mother makes her 13 year old accept a role as her artificially inseminated babymaker. Nice.
18The opponents of a proposed New Jersey law that would ban reparative therapy have come up with a new tactic. Nickname it (unofficially) the "Jerry Sandusky Victimization Act" after the child molesting former assistant football coach at Penn State.
18Sometimes, the headline is enough: Deadly giant snail found in Houston
18Today's "accidental shooting death by toddlers playing with guns" incident is brought to you by Texas, where a two-year-old shot himself in the head with his father's loaded pistol when dad turned away for a moment.
18The findings of an 11 year study of 83,000 American men ages 45 to 69, conducted by Kaiser Permanente on the risks of tobacco smoking versus marijuana smoking with regards to contracting bladder cancer: "Cannabis use only was associated with a 45 percent reduction in bladder cancer incidence, and tobacco use only was associated with a 52 percent increasein bladder cancer." (Emphasis added)
18Moore, Oklahoma flattened by "Biggest, Most Destructive Tornado in History". Deathtoll stands at 51, with more than 20 children dead. UPDATE: At least 91 deaths. UPDATE 2: Did we say at least 91 total deaths, at least 20 of them being children? Oopseys! We meant 24 dead, nine of them being children (as of 2200 UTC, May 21st).
18Far-right French historian commits suicide inside Notre Dame cathedral, apparently in protest against recent gay marriage legislation in France.
18Everyone on this website isno longer going to hell
18First-ever high-resolution images of a molecule as it breaks and reforms chemical bonds.
18A Reagan appointee to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals -- who was also one of the judges on Dubya's short list for the Supreme Court -- is facing a judicial-misconduct complaint over allegations that she made “astonishingly and flagrantly biased” statements against minority groups and people with mental disabilities. (One of several examples: The death penalty provides a positive service for the condemned because they are more likely to make peace with God immediately before being executed.)
185 Dead in shooting spree at Santa Monica College.
18For 12 years they've advocated for mass state surveillance, denying Miranda rights, illegal detainee camps, jailing leakers, torture, racial profiling, and even hanging out with Neo-Nazis. But for this short period of time, they areMurica's Great Defenders of Liberty.™
18Ghostbuster horrified by what he saw.
18The end of the very beginning of the Internet.
18In the wake of the landmark SCOTUS decisions, a reminder that LGBT folks stillface significant hatred.
18Oh George, you just had to stick your head in at the best possible time.
18Even Romney thought that his 2012 candidacy was a bad idea.
18DNA found in Lake Vostok. Not the smoking gun, but getting pretty close...
18How much does it cost to spy on you, paid for by your money.
18Are we seeing Antonin Scalia's mind decay before our eyes? At the Utah Bar Association's summer convention this weekend, he said that one contributing factor to the Holocaust was all the (supposedly left-wing) judicial activism in Germany during the 1930s -- when the You-Know-Whos were in control.
18Mixed news on the "Pope Francis is a good guy" front. He's okay with the gays, as long as they don't, y'know, do gay things; women as priests is a a non-starter. Baby steps.
18"Pro tip: don't do a search for pressure cookers right after your spouse does a search for backpacks if you don't want the FBI at your door."
18Nothing changes in Zimbabwe.
18You'd probably think that Hillary Clinton wouldn't be that big of a threat to Republicans in 2016 due to age issues and the whole Benghazi thing. But okay, Prince Reibus, boycott the debates. That'll be sure to win you votes.
18No more frisking.
18The shape of things to come? Athlete gives Russia the middle finger.
18The decline of the Catholic Church in Ireland shows no signs of stopping.
18Saudi Arabia's war on witchcraft.
18Staff member on new zip-line tower at Ken Ham's Creation Museum struck by lightning.
18Your government spying on you at work: Perks for creeps not in public office.
18New Zealand Iridologist on trial for breaching human rights after patient dies. (editorial opinion: It should be second degree murder)
18The US banking industry still doesn't get it.
18Disapproval rating for the GOP at 70%. Are we ready for the conservative equivalent of the 1968 DNC protests? Update: Thanks Chaffetz, you're helping the public sector!
18Vatican forgets to spellcheck, hilarity ensues.
18Worst. Neighbourhood. Ever.
18Preggers? Congratulations but keep quiet about that joint you once smoked
18Cracky Ford begins with step 1 on the road to healing. Someone should let him know that step 2 is not "and so what?"
1860 Minutes backpedals after pushing Benghazi conspiracy theories. (CBS, care to explain Threshold Editions? It seems Lara Logan is turning into a Dan Rather clone.) Update: Meanwhile, over at Faux News: crickets.
18I wish to propose an amendment—but first, a recess: Hawaii's House passes its marriage equality bill after a 12-hour debate, and sends it back to the state Senate (where it is expected to pass on Tuesday).
18There's an active volcano under the ice in Antarctica and it could blow at any moment! The effects of any eruption can only be guessed at but could (but probably won't) raise sea-levels significantly. Don't have nightmares.
18On the scale of pareidolia to deliberate lulz, where is this?
18You can get a longer sentence for abortion than for rape under Spain's new abortion "reforms". A beachhead for the revived Catholic right or just another pisspot European centre-right government lashing out blindly before it's kicked out at the next election?
18In school voucher news, Milwaukee school closes 'in the dead of the night'. And yes, it was a religious school. UPDATE: And now the grifters behind it are trying to open a 'special needs' school in Florida.
18Mr. Christie, you make good scandals.
18"Guys, Big Ben's clock hands have stopped."
18Oh boy. Countdown to portrayal of Black holes as conspiracy in 3... 2... 1...
189/11 truther gatecrashes the Superbowl.
18Sochi Demonstrates the successes of purging all aspects of homosexual propaganda from the public view.
18After Teabaggers halt the Orange Overlord from tying a debt ceiling increase with a lifting of military pension cuts, only 12% of standing Republicans vote to keep the economy afloat until 2015.
18And this is why civilian control of the military exists.
18Haggard's Law of Internet Porn Filters: Patrick Rock, senior Tory involved in Internet porn filter plan, arrested on ... child porn charges.
18Financial regulations are unconscionable statist oppression, part two.
18Just in case you thought of the Church of England as basically benign. (National Secular Society protest petition.)
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18Our international nightmare of CNN turning its remaining vestiges into the History Channel of News (and making a mockery out of affected relatives' lives) is finally over. (Occam's Razor.)
18When the international community learns what's in this report, Hayden, we'll see who the 'emotional' one really is. (And with slightly less coverage of Dubya's amateur paintings.)
18The Koch brothers' money jar has surpassed $100 billion.
18LV Metro Police sponsors pro-abstinence "education" event that involves body-bags.
18The 11 years of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's rule in a nutshell.
18It was bound to happen: the Bitcoin Foundation is imploding.
18Judges are now striking down a gay marriage ban once a week. Slow down, we're trying to catch up.
18Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.
18The war in Iraq still ain't over.
18Unexpected effect of global warming #1: Exhuming Pacific War dead.
18Benefits of the nuclear option: Meet your new, gay, black federal judges.
18Florida extends 'Stand Your Ground' to include warning shots. (Warning: Autoplay Video)
18Men's rights group fraudulently uses the names of women's rights and queer rights organisations in charity application
18Male reporter molested at Men's rights conference
18The Vatican discovers most of their followers are in the cafeteria.
18#Notallclergy support Hobby Lobby.
18If you thought Aussie politics wouldn't get any weirder during the Abbott months, erm, it just did.
18Helicopter parenting now legally required.
18The next in Westboro Baptist Church's iron sights: ... Panic! at the Disco? The Church replete with yet another terrible parody song, the Poe's Law intensifies.
18Born-again Christian is awarded €70,000 because he was fired for proselytizing at his job. The Supreme Court in Ireland found he had the right to babble on to everyone about Jeebus, because that's what his religion asks him to do.
18This is going to be an eventful August. (US Torture Report talking points leaked) Update: The CIA: Oops.
18Westboro Baptist Church decides to visit Iraq to protest ISIS won't be going anywhere after all. Australian comedian offers to pay for trip, changes his mind and donates $100,000 to charity (in Robin Williams' name) instead.
18Truthers blow big money on ad space in Times Square to promote their "controlled demolition" conspiracy theory
18Nude celebs, MRAs... what else could one find on Reddit? Oh yes, corrective rape.
18Nebraskan school yearbooks are about to get ...interesting.
18Death and rape wishes, still an acceptable part of Twitter discourse.
18UKIP candidate Kerry Smith resigns after a series of racist, homophobic and elitist remarks. Apparently, outbreaks of racism and homophobia are side-effects of morphine. Perhaps it should say so on the bottle.
18Not only are wealth gaps at nearly unprecedented levels, actual corporate control is in the hands of even fewer than previously thought
18The dumbest man in in Congress wants John Boehner's job.
18The dumbest man in in Congress believes global warming will lead to more plants. For context, the decrease in plant biomass from deforestation is one of the primary anthropogenic causes of global warming.
18Mommy Dearest Phylis Schlafly says college women are being raped because they go to college, duh.
18Clemson University in South Carolina begins process of renaming building dedicated to Benjamin Tillman, virulent 19th-century racist. Well, better late than never.
18Japan asks U.S. publisher to ‘correct’ textbook references to 'comfort women', the Japanese euphemism for the women forced into prostitution during military conflicts.
18Remember Civil Forfeiture? Eric Holder has now somewhat prohibited it.
18Hey kids! Let's smoke some astro turf and huff moon gas!
18Jewish Leader accidentally gets trapped in AuschwitzNot The Onion
18Judges and court officials in Oklahoma could be fired for performing same-sex marriages, thanks to a bill that's passed committee and moved to the full State House.
18Fastest Star Ever Seen In The Milky Way Is Headed Out Of Our Galaxy
18Orthodox Judaism does not permit a woman to get a divorce unless the husband grants permission. Two rabbis in New Jersey have been arrested after they decided to stand up for the rights of a woman seeking to end her marriage - by kidnapping and torturing her husband until he granted permission.
18Rationality isn't determined by single factor. That is to say, while individual kinds of biases and fallacies crop up recurringly for individuals, different kinds of biases have weak relationships with each other and intelligence.
18Two French sociologists "Sokal" the Maffesolian band of sociology.
18You shall know them by their love. San Francisco Catholic church installs a watering system to drench sleeping homeless people. "Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy." They've apologized and will dismantle the system
18What products are we making in this plant again? Oh right... fire extinguishers.
18Transitional life ....and it's not even a fossil (yet).
18Human ignorance can be lethal... for baby tortoises.
18Kentucky judge rules against gay marriage ban, stays his order until SCOTUS ruling.
18"1.5 Million Missing Black Men"
17The little robot that could finally comes to rest. Added "ahhh" here.
17Link between MMR vaccine and autism ruled quackery. [13]
17The Climategate report is in - and shows no fraud. The deniers' Dover moment?
17Science fights back Hat tip
17What's going to hack the fundies off more? The fact that children of Lesbian couples do just as well, if not better, than their contemporaries, or that Fox covered the news without slagging off the study?
17100 years after the physics were confirmed and 50 years after its first mention in science fiction, the first true solar sail for propulsion is deployed for testing in orbit.
17Michael Steele Says Afghanistan Was 'War Of Obama's Choosing,' Not Something The U.S. 'Wanted To Engage In' Apparently did bad in History.
17Fox "we'll tell you all you need to know" News suggests ditching libraries.
17Mark Williams would like you to know that the Tea Party is not racist. Actually, the NAACP is for having the word "colored" in their name... as it has been since 1911. That's why he wrote a satirical letter from the "coloreds" to Abraham Lincoln, in which they ask not to be freed because then they would have to give up government handouts bailouts. In completely unrelated news, the tanning tax is racist. Update: The National Tea Party Federation kick out not only Williams but his entire Tea Party group for odious racism!
17 Vampires 1 ‒ Pastors 0. "Anne Rice 'quits being a Christian'"
17For more than a decade, Britain has vaccinated hens for salmonella. In doing so, they have virtually wiped out the disease in their egg industry. By following suit, American egg farmers might have prevented the current salmonella scare. However, when new food safety rules were being debated a few months ago, the FDA quashed plans to vaccinate hens because "there was not enough evidence to conclude that vaccinating hens against salmonella would prevent people from getting sick."
17Fox & Friends hosts to be replaced by chimps! Well, according to the ever-reliable Weekly World News, who acknowledged Fox's coverage of their story.
17The Tea Party is a grass-roots movement of popular resentment against Obama, er, funded by Big Oil.
17Obama to appear on Mythbusters. Nothing to do with religion or birth certificates, however.
17A financial manager for wealthy clients will not face felony charges for a hit-and-run because it could jeopardize his job.
17Michigan assistant Attorney General fired for targeting gay student leader.
17A momentous day in history. Future generations will look back and see the exact time when Fox News hits rock bottom.
17This is why net neutrality is important: The cable bastards Comcast wants to charge extra for the company that provides bandwidth to Netflix.
17NASA to announce an " astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life."
17House passes bill repealing DADT. Apparently this is to send a message to the Senate to pull the butt-plug out of their arse and get on with it.
17The pope enjoys an acrobatic strip tease.
17And you thought Barack Obama actually gave a flying fuck about the environment?
17Update: Congresswoman Giffords is breathing on her own, but is still on a breathing tube to prevent possible complications.
17Wikileaks is sued by a Florida man on the grounds that the site's recent revelations scared him.
17In Gardena, California, a student who has brought a gun to school several times got "caught" with it when he dropped his book bag on the floor and the gun discharged, injuring two classmates. And while some are asking how he repeatedly got the gun past security, will any gun control advocates point out that the NRA and other gun rights advocates have consistently insisted that it is impossible for the largely defensive weapon of gun to discharge accidentally?
17Bank of America is purchasing domain names critical of the company and its executives, perhaps anticipating a WikiLeaks disclosure.
17Over 100 mafia members arrested in crackdown on organized crime
17Even in the wake of the Shellacking, voters prefer Barack Obama to Michele Bachmann by an 18-point margin.
17Tea Party? Who -me? No!
17South Dakota law makers: We are going to require South Dakotans to buy guns to make a point about how unconstitutional is ObamaCare. Reality: It is Constitutional for a state to require everyone to buy guns; the question with ObamaCare is federal government powers (not state); and George Washington signed the 1792 Militia Act mandating citizens purchase weapons and ammunition. Update: SD law's proponent: "I was not aware of that...I'm not a history major, though"
17A Bombay court has ruled that Astrology is a 'time tested science more than 4000 years old'
17Mark Kelly, Gabrielle Giffords' husband, will command the final Space Shuttle mission.
17Dept. of Poetic Justice: Man dies after being stabbed at a cock-fight... by a cock.
17The Crips, the Bloods, and the Compton Gentlemen's First XI.
17At CPAC, Ron Paul supporters yell "War criminal!" at Dick Cheney.
17Slow news day? Make some up!
17An EU ruling on gender equality may see the end of that annoying Sheila's Wheels advert.
17 Any way you count it, that's a lot of fuckin' pedophile priests.
17Wisconsin Republicans finally railroad through their public union busting bill.
17That's right, Libertarians and Tea Partiers, the Gubmint should get out of people's business because there's no need for Govmint regulation, none whatsoever, no Siree Bob.
17Barack Obama announces he's running for re-election.
17An Ask Jeeves poll suggests many people think fictional characters are real and historical characters are made up. Though the 1% thinking Doctor Who is real must have been taking the piss, surely...
17The American Medical Association and The Lancet have been sucked into the vast global warming conspiracy. Don't these ignorant doctors understand that CO2 is plant food?
17Good news: Palin's support now lowest ever. Bad news: 25% of Americans still support her.
17On Tuesday (5 April), Wisconsin held an election for a seat on the state supreme court. The race involved an incumbent who openly supports Governor Scott Walker's union-busting programs. The challenger was up by about 200 votes on Thursday afternoon. But in the evening, the county clerk of a GOP-dominated county announced that she had "found" an extra 11,000 votes, which now puts the incumbent up by about 7500 votes. The clerk who found the votes has caused controversy during counts before, and is a former employee of the Assembly Republican Caucus.
17Upset at the Atlas Shrugged movie getting pummelled by the critics? Why not comfort yourself with new friends at the Atlasphere Objectivist dating site!
17An evangelical pastor suggests that Gandhi is not in hell. Fellow evangelicals try to tweet him out of the movement.
17Memo to 9/11 first responders: SURPRISE!!! Thanks to an amendment that a GOP congressman tacked on to the 9/11 health fund, in order for you to get health benefits related to any injuries that you suffered during that terrible day, you must first submit yourselves to the FBI to be screened for any terrorist links.
17King & Spalding, the law firm that the House retained to defend DOMA has withdrawn from the case. They cite "insufficient vetting" as the reason. Perhaps they realized the law was unconstitutional?
17The GOP agenda is "Jobs, jobs, jobs," right? Well, shit ain't gonna pass the Senate so it's time to throw more red meat to the wingnut base, like passing H.R. 3, the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion" bill
17Despite all the conspiracy theories, nearly two-thirds of people back the decision not to release pictures of Osama Bin Laden.
17In a move that even Puritans might think goes too far, the Florida Senate bans sex with any other human being. Brings a whole new meaning to "freshly-squeezed Florida oranges".
17Barack Obama: We doubled our exports during my administration! (If by double you mean increase by approx. 33%)
17Michael Bloomberg calls for legalization of gay marriage.
17Sarah Palin, known for her difficulties telling different countries and U.S. states apart, is now launching a bus tour with the aim of grandstanding "educating Americans about our nation's founding principles."
17 A priest working under the Vatican's special advisor on pedophilia: "I do not want 16-year-old boys but younger. Fourteen-year-olds are O.K. Look for needy boys who have family issues." allegedly.
17The Westboro Baptist Church meets the KKK and the universe collapses into a singularity of hate
17That's mortals for you, Death continued. They've only got a few years in this world and they spend them all in making things complicated for themselves.
17Michele Bachmann states she believes that schools should be required to teach intelligent design by the federal government in a republican leadership conference. The sentence before stating federal government should be as minimally involved in "local education" as possible.
17"Physicists: Universe Almost Certainly Not a Hologram"
17Republican presidential candidate speaks sense. (Hey, that's no way to get elected!)
17Child protection officer caught with child porn and (surprise! surprise!) he was employed by the Catholic Church!
17Libyan rebels meet light resistance as they enter Tripoli. Saif al-Islam Gaddaffi has been captured and his remaining soldiers are deserting (no word on the bodyguards).
17Federal Court Rules Videotaping Police Is A First Amendment Right.
17It's hard to know which is worse: Michele Bachmann saying that the HPV vaccine causes retardation, or Rick Perry for apologizing for supporting it before now.
17From "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" to "I do".
17Medvedev does his job.
17The US is winning the future in science... as the Tevatron shuts down due to lack of funds. (Number crunching: Requested annual funding to keep the Tevatron operational for three years: million, or about $56 million American. Estimated daily cost of the war in Iraq: $400 million.)
17Don't like reality? Well, on Rick Parry Perry's watch, you can censor clear scientific evidence on climate change.
17A bishop is finally indicted for covering up priest's child abuse. About fucking time.
17An Occupy Oakland protester, a veteran who survived two tours of Iraq, could now die after being hit in the head by a police projectile.
17One Japanese MP has some giant balls. Update: The steel testicles are everywhere today!
17And that's number four.
17Astronomers announce the finding of an Earth-Like planet around Kepler-22.
17God reveals to Pat Robertson who the new President will be.
17FBI updates its rape law definition to include males, a move made thanks in part by pro-feminist Joe Biden. Happy now, men's rights activists?
17Yes people, The Rev. Sir Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA is currently polling higher than Jon Huntsman in the South Carolina Republican primary. Update: Colbert to make a "major announcement" on Thursday; you know where this is going.
17Why do South Carolina evangelicals hate Mitt Romney? Because he's not homophobic enough.
17As if you needed another reason not to vote for Newt.
17Ding dong the witch is dead! postponed!
17The hits just keep on coming. "Limiting child farm labor promotes obesity."
17Given the cost of Super Bowl advertising, Pete Hoekstra (Republican - of course) really wants his constituents to know he's a racist prick.
17Oh no you don't, bastard.
17You have to see this: The Republican that ensured gay marriage passed in Washington state.
17Seven down, 43 to go.
17“Vic 'You're with the Child Pornographers' Toews wants to know about you. Let's get to know about Vic..."
17So. Birthers. WorldNutDaily. “When I took this mission on, I took it on to possibly be able to clear the president,” Arpaio said during a speech in Maricopa County. “I was doing him a favor. We’ll see what happens.” Yeah...
17Oh, for crying out loud. Gay teacher fired on his wedding day for the crime of being homosexual.
17Mississippi police shut down an LGBT parade, on the grounds it's "illegal to be openly gay in the state".
17The Kony 2012 backlash worsens, as even Kony's victims hate the film.
17ICARUS: Neutrinos do not travel faster than light. Case closed?
17Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all.
17Thanks Dave!
17Ann Romney: "Unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out."
17Haggard's Law: Scientifically Confirmed.
17Author of Leading Ex-Gay Study Admits Findings Were Flawed
17Kirk Cameron's child-star peers rip him a new one.
17If you can't beat 'em, pose as 'em.
17Scientists from 67 countries call to ban all commercial fishing in the Arctic. One psychopath stands in the way.
17Connecticut to abolish capital punishment shortly, California to ask its citizens in November.
17UKIP leader Nigel Farage makes some comments regarding horrid darkies immigrants and housing: an audience member who actually works for the London Housing Authority hits him with these strange things called "facts".
17"Let's hear it from the Harper gang - 'This is the media's fault.' 'The Auditor General is a Liberal mole.' 'No, he's actually a socialist.' 'He's from Quebec? They don't like us there.' 'The whole world is against us. We are victims of a vast left-wing conspiracy!' Take responsibility and stop the lies and the blaming. Harpo appointed him. You have no excuses."
17Want to stop the spread of AIDS? Make the women shave their heads and bathe less.
17Kansas has passed a law that makes it legal for doctors to refuse to fill birth control prescriptions. Critics say that under the law, a doctor could also refuse to treat a pregnant woman for cancer if the treatment could cause a miscarriage.
17More "Christian love:" NC pastor says gays and lesbians should be kept behind electrified fences until they die out.
17Canadian scientists finally fight back in Stephen Harper's war against evidence-based reasoning.
17Mitt Romney: I'm not releasing my tax returns, because John Kerry's wife didn't.Where's the birth certificatetax return, Romney?
17The first exoplanet smaller than Earth, and it's only 33 light years away. Yes, there's no atmosphere and likely a volcanic surface with temperatures of over 1,000oF... but it's better than London during the Olympics
17No, it's not us! It's socialist NASA obfuscating the facts! Get your hands off my oil!
17Dan Ariely and Mike Norton find that Democrats' and Republicans' ideas of the ideal distribution of wealth in the United States are, in fact, very, very similar when under the "veil of ignorance."
17The Taliban really, really hate partying.
17Now don't be drinking anything when you click this.
17Oh MRAs, you're so, so oppressed!
17NASA: Expect idiots committing suicides on Dec 21.
17North Korea discovers secret unicorn lair.[No, not The Onion] Disappointing UPDATE: Sadly, not unicorns, merely kirin
17A busy day for rockets, first North Korea and then Syria. Update: Go home satellite, you're drunk.
17Anti-vaccination movement in Pakistan resorts to murder.
17Catholic priest suspended after a little problem with handcuffs.
17Assad: "It's all a conspiracy! Those evil Westerners are all ganging up on me! You western puppets are going to hell!
17Sheriff Joe sends armed posses of volunteers to patrol Phoenix schools.
17How to end your political career in two sentences. And probably the first second Japanese politician to merit a RationalWiki article.
17The cutest disgusting animal on the planet.
17The Boy Scouts of America are apparently having internal discussions about ending their anti-gay policies. A public letter from their official site confirms this policy is indeed under discussion.
17They've dug up the skeleton of someone who probably was Rich the T...hird.
17"Hello, Hello! America? Yes, can you please nuke us? It would be really great!!" Chinese Politburo: Facepalm.png
17Mitch McConnell gets suckered by an Onion-style article.
17Prepare to give a giant fuck you to David Petraeus.
17The EU is going to debate a ban on all pornography on the Internet. When this went public, the European Parliament blocked incoming email after MEPs complained about getting email from citizens about it. Update: This seems to be a habit with the EU parliament's email system, as any email with the words "gender stereotypes" in it is also blocked... on International Women's Day.
17The mad scientists running New York City come up with an inventive way to deal with the city's long bemoaned rat problem.
17North Korea may be selling meth out of its embassies.
17Australia to crack down on bogus "therapeutic goods".
17Let's see how much of a bluffer you really are...
17Look what you just did, Kim.
17The guy who sent the ricin letters is apparently a nutcase. And an Elvis impersonator.
17Meanwhile in Michigan, a church minister who has two prior convictions for attacking women is convicted of killing his fiance's 24-year-old daughter because he was jonesing for some necrophilia. Memo to churches: (1. BACKGROUND CHECKS, dammit! 2. If you did a background check and hired him anyway, this is why they included 1 Timothy 3:1-16 in that book you're always shoving in everybody's faces.)
17Ireland's coalition government: "How about we get women wanting an abortion to have panel-based counselling from six to a dozen doctors?" The minister for children and the college of psychiatry: "How about no?"
17Republic of Ireland to legalise (limited) abortion.
17Disney and Pixar are working on a movie inspired by Mexico's traditional Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) holiday, so naturally, Disney tried to trademark it for themselves. They backed off after loud public outcry made them realize how insane that was.
17In case you've been living under a rock and haven't seen the viral video of a student standing up to a teacher over lacklustre teaching methods, here it is. The real news story is that not only has the student not been sanctioned, but the district is actually investigating the teacher to see if she's competent.
17Survey finds Christianity in the UK is declining50% faster than originally thought and 1 in 10 under-25s is Muslim.
17If the mountain won't come to the Mohammedan, then...
17After Sandy hit, Republican OK senators Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn opposed federal disaster aid. So, of course, after the Moore tornado, you would expect them to act with integrity and consistency on disaster funding, right? lol no.
17A convicted child-rapist whines about feminism.
17Advice for Cardinal Pell: When you’re talking about coverups of child rape, it’s best to stick with apologizing.
17A stark reminder of what a world without vaccines would be like.
17 New Zealand city abandons fluoridation against wishes of a "binding referendum" and to the general dismay of the medical and dental establishment. Maybe this will kick-start a pro-teeth backlash against the nuts?
17 Now the Amish are being fracked too.
17222,222,222.22.
17If the people behind this lawsuit get their way, soon we'll no longer have to pay royalities to perform "Happy Birthday to You".
17Google: Fuck you, FISA gag order.
17Republican "family values" Senate candidate arrested for child molestation.
17Heisenberg's uncertainty principle finally gets formal proof.
17Six planets found to be orbiting Gliese 667C, including three "super earths" that are within the habitable zone of the star.
17What we know about the Catholic priest molestation scandal is about to get more detailed. As part of a bankruptcy settlement after victims sued their pants cassocks off, the Milwaukee archdiocese has beenforced to open their records in the case, dating back to the 1960s.
17Just when you thought the pedophiles in the international Catholic priest molestation scandal had plumbed the lowest depths of depravity, you hear of another priest that managed to go even lower.
17EU to decide whether to stick a giant middle finger to the NSA spying program. UPDATE:support for the finger.
17North Carolina proves it's ready to join the 20th century.
17Ah, the smell of patronage.
17Head of Department of Homeland Security call it quits.
17Federal judge orders Ohio to recognize same-sex marriage performed in Maryland.
17Your Government Spying at Work, Part #2: Congress fails to put it down. But at least you know who wants it there. Update: Coming Soon - What do you mean SSL is secure, now that the government has the keys?
17Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries, Hollande!
17Diplomatic immunity now seems to extend to deaths caused by speeding diplomats driving into buses. Remember, kids, diplomatic immunity means you get NOTHING!
17"Here are the results of you physical, Mister Moore. Your chronic conditions include a vitamin B-12 deficiency, high blood pressure and cholesterol, and homosexual behavior." (Just a little modern-day reminder of the discrimination inflicted on people not too long ago.)
17Of the 97 Starbucks in Connecticut, which one did the gun fans choose to host their gun appreciation day? Good job it closed early.
17Local education chief in Indonesia wants Female students in the country to undergo 'virginity tests'. He has an uphill struggle in a country full of moderates.
17In post-racial America, natural black hair and hairstyles, like afros, are apparantly "fads". Black little girls should really know better, and pour sodium hydroxide on their scalps to get proper, non-faddish, hair.
17NSA at work: What encryption?
17Wish you well, Mr. Mayor.
17Political bias makes even smart people lose the ability to accurately do math.
174 Bangladeshi atheists face up to 14 years in prison for criticising Islam and Muhammad online. [14]
17Bachmann, Gohmert and King: "Kill the Muslim Brotherhood! Praise the dictatorship! The secular left shall prevail! ...wait, what?"
17300 high school kids break into retired NFL player Brian Holloway's NY state home and have a wild, drunken party, complete with at least $20,000 in property damage and more in theft of property, using Twitter to post photos and crow about how their parents don't care. Holloway turns it around into a community effort to save them. Incredibly, some of the parents have threatened lawsuits.
17Fingers crossed, waiting for Republicans to come up with arguments that this is a very large-scale DDoS attack instead of people actually wanting Obamacare. Update: Ever expected this to happen? Obama is using the GOP's own Business Roundtable against them. Update II: The Orange Overlord shows his hand. (And cut it with the "Dems aren't negotiating!" crap.)
17First gay marriage = bestiality. Now gay marriage = incest!
17 Local body elections and referenda in New Zealand - voters reject fluoride scaremongering
17Ted Cruz demonstrates that it's quite possible for him to be an even bigger douchebag.
17"Gentlemen, which brings me to my next point: Don't smoke crack." Update: His goose is apparently cooked. (And getting rid of him may be a bit harder than we think.)
17Dawkins: teaching religion is child abuse. Bring up the deckchairs and popcorn...this should be fun!
17Toronto Mayor Rob Ford finally admits to using crack. It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is "I've been in a drunken stupor... You didn't ask the correct questions." UPDATE: What will go down as one of the dumbest political speeches of all time.
17 India's Supreme Court: Being gay is a crime.
17Canada's shame: we apparently buy into the Truther thing.
17Santa Maria! The British Medical Journal reports that about 0.5 percent of American woman they surveyed "consistently affirmed their status as virgins and did not use assisted reproductive technology, yet reported virgin births."
17Uganda takes bold strides while preparing to join the 20th Century.
17First the Downing Street memo, then the Bush-Blair memo, then the Bush–Aznar memo, then the 2004 Iraq document leak, and now... what should be called the Big Red One.
17Mission Uhhcomplished: Al-Qaeda forces capture Fallujah and declare an Islamic state.
17Mark Connelly, pastor of the Gilbert, Az, Mission Community megachurch, steps down, after admitting to numerous affairs.
17...visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation."
17Stem cell breakthrough claimed I don't know if the media are overplaying this, but for those with a subscription to Nature, the published paper is here (paywall alert)
17The Danish centre-left coalition is falling apart because the government is partially selling off a state-owned energy company... to Goldman Sachs.
17IP vandalism to the Bitcoin article will begin to decrease for a while.
17Residents of an exclusive Dallas neighborhood -- including fracking proponents Dick Armey and ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson -- are opposing the construction of a new storage tower by the local water district in part because (wait for it) they're worried that the water might be used for fracking in their area. Our irony senses are tingling!
17What hath Alan Sokal wrought? Over 100 hundred fake computer-generated "science" papers found to have gained publication. (The anti-science crowd are eating this up, sigh.)
17Financial regulations are unconscionable statist oppression, part two.
17Newsweek: "We found the creator of Bitcoin!" Satoshi Nakamoto: "Get the fuck away from me! It's not me!" Newsweek: "Shit?" Everyone else: *Facepalm* Update: And the magazine's glorious return to print is... outta here! (And the cryptocurrency itself.)
17After China abstains from a Russian veto at the UN (Sino-Soviet split reunion!), протесты начнутся в Москве.
17"So we're a global warming denial institute. How do we get young urbanites to agree with us?" "Buy an organic coffee shop!"
17The US' stance on the head of government filling Supreme Court seats with partisan, unimpartial judges: "If it gets approved in the Senate, it's fine. All presidents do it, what could go wrong?" The Canadian stance: "You are in direct violation of the Constitution. See that door behind you?" (Paragraphs 88-95 are heavenly.)
17Folks counter-protesting the Westboro Baptist Church take the high road.
17Insert usual expression of shock and horror about American gun culture here.
17Canadian Liberals must now walk the party line on abortion.
17Ken Ham and Pat Robertson are at each others' throats again. UPDATE: Oh please! Oh please! Oh please!
17Obama's people were not too happy when he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
17African leaders declare war on Boko Haram
17Tennessee brings back Ol' Sparky.
17Jamaica to decriminalize ganja for personal use.
17Finland celebrates Pride Month by choosing to remain ín the 20th century.
17Stefan Molyneux's opposition to copyright law is firm and principled! Except when using said form of state violence to send fraudulent DMCA notices to get criticism taken down.
17With Scottish independence's rejection dashing many nationalist and Secessionist hopes of precedence, Catalonia leaders have announced plans for their own try at independence in two months. The Spanish government is having none of it.
17Mississippi, you never cease to amaze
17UKIP is no longer on the outside looking in, as a Tory who defected to UKIP is re-elected to his seat.
17Let's see if North Korea's propaganda of destroying "the south" in one blow holds up. (Also, as the speculation may last for a while, here's North Korea Misinformation Bingo.)
17When batshits collide: Christopher Monckton lends support to Australian right-wing evangelical Christian micro-party Rise Up Australia.
17There's a campaign to put McDonald's in churches.
17Joe Cocker, quite good singer, deaded at 70 of lung cancer.
17Ross Ulbricht, a.k.a. Dread Pirate Roberts, drug-dealing money-laundering hitman-hiring proprietor of the Bitcoin-powered Silk Road, who was busted by feds using a library computer logged into the Silk Road admin panel, puts forward as his defence that he started the site, but handed it over to someone else, who only talked him into coming back in time to be busted by the feds. This is literally his defence. But wait! He's just claimed that Mark Karpeles, of massively-failed Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, was the real Dread Pirate Roberts! But wait, there's actually links to Karpeles in the story. Good Lord.
17Yemen's presidential palace attacked by Shia Houthi rebels.
17The anti-austerity, anti-capitalism party, Syriza, wins the Greek general election. Euro plummets amidst talk of renegotiating the bailout and reversing austerity measures.
17First they came for the drug-pushing, money-laundering, hitman-hiring Bitcoin advocates, and I was pretty okay with that actually.
17Hope you aren't too attached to eating bread
17In all fairness, Rudy, I sincerely doubt your own mother loves you, you really can't expect Obama to. Update: The New York Daily News (by no means a liberal bastion) rips him a new one.
17Homeless people a problem? Let loose the wolves!
17Scientific knowledge continues to evolve: "Earth Has A Layer No One Knew About"
17Airlines change cockpit rules after co-pilot blamed for Germanwings crash
17Al-Shabaab militants kill 147 students at a Kenyan university.
17European Commission to announce antitrust charges against Google
17Sounds like science fiction: Using a laser designed for particle accelerators to deorbit space debris from the ISS
16Scientists wanted to study the habits of men who don't watch porn. Problem was, they couldn't find any.
16Oh noes! What real men knew all along - G-Spot a myth, say scientists.
16Portugal allows gay marriage and declares war on creation. Well, according to his Poopiness the Hole anyway.
16To all the populists and majoritarians, we can only say, Brother, you asked for it. We eagerly await the upcoming landmark trial, Texas State Board of Education vs. Reality.
16Finally! An Oregon jury CONVICTS two faith healing parents for standing by and watching as their teenaged son died of a curable condition.
16One story you probably won't see on CP's broken news. The USA is now being viewed more favourably by the rest of the world.
16Being a Christian doesn't entitle you to discriminate against gay couples seeking help. Of course, the former Archbishop of Canterbury threatens "civil unrest" if Christians are required to behave decently in the workplace.
16Non-African humans have some Neanderthal DNA
16A candidate in the Gubernatorial Primary in Alabama is attacked for possibly believing in evolution and not swallowing Genesis hook, line and sinker. The candidate is forced to respond and affirms he believes in every word in the Bible. This is what passes for politics today in the US.
16Maine Republicans hold a meeting in a school classroom over the weekend, and decide to search it and remove any "anti-American" items they found. Pure class.
16Is Betelgeuse about to blow up? Let's watch the science sites over the next few days ... Update: Er, no. (everybody say "awww" Cry.gif)
16Georgia's creationist natural history museum, The Gallery of Creation, is liquidating its entire astounding collection of curiosities in an auction.
16Bike sharing in Denver "threatens our personal freedoms." Just don't tell the Conservative blue-blood pushing the scheme in London.
16Latest natural resource crisis: we're running out of helium.
16The strange tale of Darwin's Eden
16The Log Cabin Republicans sued to have don't ask, don't tell declared unconstitutional. A district court judge who was appointed by the guy who created "don't ask, don't tell", has ruled in their favor. The right wing scream machine will kick into gear in 5... 4... 3...
16Best. Real life. Hack. Ever.
16In Sweden schools can't say religion is true. Scandinavia 1 Rest of world 0
16James O'Keefe, the amateur journalist annoying twerp who made the ACORN videos apparently wanted to trick a CNN reporter into making something resembling a sex tape.
16Just when you thought the Republicans had contained their urges for this election cycle, along comes 67-year-old Reagan-appointed Senior U.S. District Court Judge Jack T. Camp in a case that involves illegal possession of firearms, a stripper, and the judge's attempt to buy some Roxys and blow.
16The Hardly Suprising News Department reports that a new poll has found that Tea Partiers share many values with the religious right. "Nearly half of those who identify with the Tea Party believe that the Bible is the literal word of God".
16From the "Don't expect to see this on MPR" department: Obama is more popular than Palin in her home state.
16Massive fossilised amber find. "It's like having the complete dinosaur, not just the bones. You can see all the surface details on their bodies and wings. It's fantastic."
16The anti-science mob are so predictable, you can use a chatbot to put them down.
16Suffer the little children. Catholic priest caught with 21,000 child-porn images on his pc.
16Sarah Palin: "How dare someone exploit their sudden, undeserved fame!"
16His website DNS has been turned off, his PayPal account closed, he's been charged with a sex crime on an international warrant, and now his bank account has been frozen. Has Julian Assange annoyed somebody or something?
16A socialist author refers to Jesus (positively) as a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist. Her book is assigned for reading in a high-school; a student's parents get all offended and pull him right out of school.
16A new cancer test can detect one single cancerous blood cell among one billion healthy cells.
16Rep. Michele Bachmann (Wingnut-MN) begins grandstanding in an angle for the presidency. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) thinks this would be a lovely idea, on the grounds that her ideas are so absurd as to lose her the election, while the campaign would conveniently get her out of Congress.
16Earlier suspicions have been confirmed: thunderstorms create antimatter — electron->gamma ray->e-/e+ pair. Holy crap!
16Archeologists find the world's oldest winery in a cave in Armenia. Considering that the winery dates back 6000 years, do you think certain people will start believing that on the Seventh Day, God got smashed?
16Report: Students learn squat in the first two years of college, as they are too busy partying and professors are too busy doing research to teach them properly. "Shocking and disturbing," says Prof. Richard Arum, the report's chief researcher.
16Two men who distributed leaflets entitled, "The Death Penalty?" are to become the first people prosecuted in the United Kingdom for distributing material intended to stir up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation.
16Google & Twitter set up a voice-to-tweet service for Egyptians. Suck on that, Mubarak.
16Just how bad is life under Mubarak?
16Michele Bachmann is worried that if she goes through an airport full-body scanner, naked pictures of her will show up on the Internet. Bachmann thinks that this question is "on everybody's mind."
16Well, at least the Yanks aren't the only ones ignorant about science. 32% of Russians believe the sun revolves around the Earth.
16Rick Santorum addresses his google problem.
16People throughout the United States and the rest of the world, including China and Egypt, are sending pizza to the protesters in Wisconsin.
16Ha! Don't these leftist, liberal owls realise there's no such thing as global warming?
16Apparently, corporations don't have a right to personal privacy, but you can hurt their feelings.
16Life imitates The Meaning of Life: Man slides dildo into fiancee as a demonstration for a Northwestern University class. NWU defends the display, right up to the point at which an alumnus gets all offended and threatens to withhold a donation, at which point it immediately becomes Troubling and Disappointing.
16Parent company of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity hires people to call the radio shows they syndicate. Limbaugh and Hannity both deny their own shows use the service.
16Wisconsin Tea Party Governor's move against public sector unions is not popular with Americans, with 64% of them disapproving of the direction.
16One in five California voters now "decline to state" a political affiliation to either of the two main parties in the US, and the bleeding seems mainly to come from the Republicans.
16University saves $100,000 by using Microsoft's Kinect to diagnose OCD and ADD in children.
16Want to stop being gay? There's an app for that!
16Wisconsin Republican Party wants to abuse open-records laws and go on a nasty, nasty fishing expedition. (Note to all folks with a .edu or .gov e-mail. DO NOT use it for anything not directly work-related).
16After two and a half months of therapy, Congresswoman Giffords is now able to walk and speak.
16The future gets a little closer as the US Navy gets is first floating laser platform of death!
16"Well, duh!" department: WND's Joseph Farah admits to publishing "some misinformation by columnists."
16NPR asks: Whatever happened to all the anti-war protesters? A University of Michigan study indicates that a number of them were motivated more by opposition to Dubya than by opposition to war.
16A man in West Virginia was found by the police in a bedroom, dressed in a bra and panties, standing over the neighbours goat. The goat had "at least one stab wound".
16Catholic priest served on board of an organisation that "campaigns to end the Dutch ban on adult-child sex."
16A certain Minnesota nutjob, in a move that may have surprised three people somewhere in Timbuktu, has announced a bid for the presidency.
16 Jon Stewart knowingly walks into an ambush by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.
16Sarah Palin finally sees the beginning of her own movie, that starts with criticisms like Matt Damon comparing Palin's campaign to a "really bad Disney movie", and states "What would make a celebrity, like you saw on screen, so hate someone that they'd seek their destruction, their death, the death of their children?"
16Michele Bachmann pledges to ban all forms of female pornography
16New country on the block: South Sudan is now an independent nation.
16Bachmann was asked to leave her church.
16Faith based pregnancy counselling found wanting. Well, there's a surprise!
16Republican "economics" strikes again: They've effectively shut down the FAA to save $16 million at 13 rural airports. But the shutdown has cost the federal government $200 million in tax revenues and may cost up to $1.2 billion if they don't pass the FAA's operational budget before their summer vacation ends in early September.
16Tea Party Downgrade? S&P seems to think so.
16Rick Perry doesn't believe in Global Warming, bitch.
16The GOP presidential field summarised: Rick Perry is a dope, Michele Bachmann is a joke, and Mitt Romney is a fraud.
16Rebels liberate Gaddaffi compound. Also liberate valuables from Gaddaffi compound (let's get on the golf cart!)
16The United States of Liberty and Education wins again.
16The UK government is committed to changing the law to allow gay marriage by 2015.
16Fact-checking Occupy Wall Street claims: all correct so far. But no, no, it's all socialist drivel, don't listen to those commies.
16Occupy Wall Street has become larger than anybody expected - Rome is on fire. Update: Hello Silvio.
16Denmark retains its position as the happiest country on Earth NO WAIT. THeyre socialists. Gummint is da problem. Donnt liten to therm!
16And after eight years of "Mission Accomplished," Iraq is finally deemed royally fucked.
16GOPers like Eric Cantor on the Occupy Wall Street movement: "Now is not the time to pit Americans against Americans." Interesting perspective considering the millions of Americans they want to pit Republican voters against.
16UNESCO accepts Palestine into its ranks, US goes into crybaby mode.
16Gabrielle Giffords well enough to serve Thanksgiving dinners to Air Force personnel stationed in her district.
16Jim Henson's Muppets just a bunch of goddamn commies! says Fox News. UPDATE: Of course, paranoia regarding beloved Hollywood iconography is nothing new.
16Rick Perry: Now officially worse than Rebecca Black.
16Time announces its "Person of the Year"—the protester.
16Want your mind to be blown? The six heirs of the Wal-Mart fortune own more wealth than the bottom 30% of American citizens.
16December 20th: Happy 6th Birthday Kitzmiller v. Dover
16"Ark Encounter" theme park is having trouble staying afloat.
16Starting during the Nixon Administration, federal health officials have repeatedly claimed that smoking one joint does the same amount of damage to one's health as smoking 16-20 tobacco cigarettes. (That number has gone up and down several times over the past four decades, so you can probably guess where this is leading.)
16Mitt Romney -- serial killer.
16Want to teach intelligent design in public school science classes? No problem! You just want to teach the controversy. Want to run a music workshop where third graders write songs "about the holidays, laughter, daffodils, best friends — and the divisive Occupy protests that have spread across the country"? Then you're indoctrinating helpless children and you must be stopped!
16"This here is South Carolina. A Christian state. Don't you be quoting that goddam librul Jesus"
16Frothy doesn't want to hear complaints about expensive drugs.
16Newt's charm just grows and grows.
16Russian scientists have drilled through the 3,768 metres to Lake Vostok.
16This is going to be one great Presidential election. We also expect an increase in shower usage for 2012.
16Online piracy acts? How about a decentralised, purely P2P BitTorrent client, free from external websites and servers, that literally cannot be shut down without destroying the entire internet.
16Now we'll see just how anti contraception the GOP really are.
16Because it's the secularists who are engaging in suicide bombing and molestation cover-ups...
16 Halp halp, Satan is taking over America! Or that's what Rick Santorum says in a reeeeally creepy speech... [15]
16Andrew Schlafly's head might explode: An atheist blogger manages to defy the assertion that atheists are not charitable and raises $40K for a public school junior for upholding the U.S. Constitution and fighting to have a public prayer display removed from her school.
16Marie Colvin killed in Syria.
16The vote-suppression scandal continues to widen as Opposition parties charge that Stephen Harper is the Canadian-version of Richard Nixon.
16FBI arrests Sabu, then Sabu rolls on the identity of 300 LulzSec.
16A new petition attempts to place Alan Turing on the next £10 bank note.
16German courts want cisgender purity, and rule that the state can condemn a young trans girl to institutionalization, reparative therapy and foster care simply because her mother didn't try to beat the transgender out of her.
16Unbelievable that people are surprised by this.
16More sudden outbreaks of common sense: Tunisia shows the middle finger to Sharia.
16If you repeat a lie often enough, it will become the truth.
16Male congressmen being inundated with handmade vaginas.
16'Billboards in Chicago paid for by The Heartland Institute point out that some of the world’s most notorious criminals say they “still believe in global warming”'
16The beginning of the end. I'm not a crook!
16Democratic congressman: We should respect nonbelievers. But they don't really exist!
16Biden smash! "And by the way, I'll take a lot of credit for a man having land on the moon, because all the while in school, I rooted for it."
16400 ppm carbon dioxide is here.
16Pastor jailed for advocating corporal punishment for young children.
16Private Christian school hires music teacher, then immediately fires him when they find out he's gay.
16Sandusky found guilty on 45 of 48 charges.
16Rush Limbaugh waxes nostalgic about those pre-19th Amendment golden days.
16To any homophobe that uses Google...*ahem* (We look forward to the expected boycott of Google. That's Search, YouTube, Gmail, Android, AdSense, Maps, Chrome, Picasa, Drive and the Office tools... no, nobody uses Plus.)
16Opposition forces in Syria bomb Damascus, killing the Syrian Defence Minister, Interior Minister, and killing/wounding several other officials.
16John McCain faces recall over his support for Huma Abedin.
16Seriously, in this day and age how dumb must you be to agree to your 12-year-old having a sleepover with a 46-year-old priest?
16Romney uses band's song for his campaign. Band says, "I don't fucking think so."
16From the Department of Say-No-More: Majority of Tea Party members support carrying concealed weapons in church.
16"The move was not partisan" Oh yeah, totally.
16Tampa Bay strip clubs prepare for RNC. [Oh god, am I the only one who wishes there was a warning when a link leads to a video?]
16Reagan judge says "Deregulation fundamental mistake." Greenspan agrees.
16It may be international GoTopless day, but the Catholic Church have declared it National Marriage Sunday and are getting the big guns out: a letter denouncing gay marriage is to be read in every Catholic church in Scotland.
16Charlie Crist, former Republican Governor of Florida, endorses...Obama!
16Fetch the popcorn: First three-way civil union signed in Brazil, causing anger and legal headscratching.
16Photojournalism proves its relevance: Mitt Romney thanks his top donors during a private party, on his friend's yacht flying a Cayman Islands flag.
16Pissing on Lincoln's grave, are we?
16Reverend Moon of the Unification Church is dead of pneumonia, aged 92.
16Hurray! Mouthfoamer Glenn Beck is back on TV!
16Someone doesn't know how to use Twitter.
16How to restore a mummy? Lego, motherfucker.
16God missing from the campaign trail. An unintended consequence of evangelical voters, perhaps? Since neither candidate is a shrieking fundie, they don't want to bring up religion?
16Woo magazine What Doctors Don't Tell You are threatening Simon Singh with legal action. WDDTY is an organisation that laments the inconvenience of the Cancer Act. Skeptics around Britain put the popcorn on.
16The shiny new UK Health Secretary doesn't just support homeopathy, he also wants to slash the legal abortion limit in half, too - a position described by the Guardian as "a draconian change to terminations, unlikely to become law; unsupported by all the health professional organisations, deeply unpopular with many women."
16Sudden outbreak of common sense?
16Who are you, and what have you done to Ben Stein?!
16Can someone drag her down to Dumbfuckistan where she belongs?
16Beluga Whale tells diver to "get out" of its tank...no, really...
16Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott wins Olympic Gold in Missing The Point: "If OSCE members want to learn more about our election processes so they can improve their own democratic systems, we welcome the opportunity to discuss the measures Texas has implemented to protect the integrity of elections"
16Another rightie is a chronic case of "Do as I say, not as I do?" It's not even funny any more, just predictable.
16"North Korea says it's proud of its human rights record" [No, not The Onion]
16Oakland's Chief of Police never saw tons of email regarding police brutality at Occupy Oakland and other incidents because he has had a number of related terms in auto-delete filters since October 27, 2011 that caught them all, including messages from a Federal monitor. Oakland PD is also facing federal takeover, an unprecedented move in the US.
16Wingnut Tory MP Nadine Dorries is suspended from the Conservative Party and has managed, perhaps fatally, to annoy the local party that kept her in her seat in the face of all competence, for agreeing to appear in the reality TV show I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here, so that she can push her pro-life views.
16HWGA -- Pastor/ex-gay counsellor charged with molesting two young men. (And, yes, the accused is a man.)
16Yeah, we're in bizarro world now.
16The Vatican advocates polyamory! (cough)
16Obamacare just got a new patient.
16The Turnaway Study, one of the few scientific surveys to report on the lives of women who seek (and sometimes cannot get) an abortion, publishes its interesting results. Update: And look at that.
16It's official: Believe God protects Kentucky, or go to jail.
1621st Century solutions to 14th Century problems...
16NASA's MESSENGER probe sends back photos of ice on Mercury's poles.
16Gap in fossil record: Filled.
16The GOP begins trying to cut out the cancer that is the Tea Party, removing a congressman from a committee. His district had been represented on the committee for the last 151 years.
16For a company with a motto called "Don't Be Evil," this is a really shitty idea.
16Australian anti-vaccination organization, inappropriately named the "Australian Vaccination Network", ordered to change its misleading name.
16The Pope: World peace cannot be achieved when there's abortion and same-sex marriage. For reality, compare legality of same-sex marriage, legality of abortion and Global peace index.
16Biden may have saved us all.
16What to do when your money is worth more to you than your freedoms?
16Let the world's most sophisticated artificial intelligence and data analysis machine read Urban Dictionary: WCGW?
16Pat Robertson is asked by a teenager why his dad spends so much time playing video games instead of communicating with his mother. The answer? "Your mom needs to get prettier."
16British woman in Bali, Indonesia is arrested and sentenced to death for the heinous, despicable, completely appropriate death-worthy crime of...drug smuggling while allegedly under threat from gangs, because it damages Bali's reputation as a tourist destination?! "Come visit beautiful Bali, where our good name is worth more than your life!"
16Bloomberg's ban on supersized soft drinks is now, of all things, a racial issue.
16Canuckistan elected its first gay premier (equivalent of Governor) on the weekend. Normally, the response in the North would be "Who cares?" but we can thank Sun News commenters for demonstrating everything that is wrong with 21st century conservatism.
16Sarah Palin just can't take a hint.
16Yet another one: prize-winning homophobe Cardinal Keith O'Brien 'accused of inappropriate acts' with other priests. O'Brien was friend to notorious paedophile Jimmy Savile. [16] More: he resigns or The Pope forces him out.
16Blair: I need a Whaambulance!
16Hugo Chavez is dead. (for real this time)
16TSA to allow people to bring the weapons used by 9/11 hijackers onto planes again, but not bottled water or snowglobes.
16Your rights mean nothing to us
16Looks like the caveman diet may have had no real effect on heart disease.
16EU bans animal testing for cosmetics.
16Men, beware of women with poison-laced skirts!
16Virginia Attorney General and Gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli wants to ban consensual oral and anal sex.
16You will be pleased to note that the Vatican does not seem to consider torrenting movies to violate "thou shalt not steal".
16Today's US gun tragedy is brought to you by New Jersey, where a four-year-old shot a six-year-old in the head.
16First a Mississippi Senator, now a package containing ricin just got sent to Obama.
16Well, this is disappointing: more coal power plants are being installed than renewable ones.
16Advertising Standards Authority has to tell a quack that you can't claim sitting in a cave will cure asthma. (HT Quackometer.)
16Smartest person in the entire family.
16A reparative therapy camp leader in South Africa is on trial for killing 3 gay teens and torturing more over several years. Meanwhile, the Bachmanns are probably thinking "Damn, why didn't we think of that?"
16Another nasty episode of the UK's Colonial past comes back to haunt it.[17]
16Member of a Christian heavy metal band isarrested for attempting to hire a hitman on his wife.
16Minnesota will be the 12th state to pass gay marriage. Bachmann's response will be glorious.
16Do we need gun control via 3D printer control?
16Snapchat, the social media sharing service that lets you send photos that will automatically delete themselves so you can share your kinky nude shots without them being spread around, doesn't.
16A movie theatre in Missouri decides to have actors with fake guns storm an Iron Man 3 screening on the weekend.Someone calls 911, police respond to what they believe is an active shooter situation.No injuries, fortunately. (h/t to BoingBoing)
16Ever notice how quiet it goes when the murdering bastard in question is one of ours? BONUS QUESTION: How many times does the "liberal leftie" BBC tell us who sponsored the fucker?
16North Carolina moves to ban sale of the Tesla cars to 'prevent unfair competition'. This would extend to both physical dealers and online sales. Note that Texas already puts heavy restrictions on in person salesmen in their state, but does allow online purchase.
16In other news, reactionaries everywhere are assholes
16We still have a very long way to go.
16Batshit-crazy-violent murder in London is now a suspected terrorist attack. Update: Fuck off, EDL
16It's official: Stephen Harper's Conservatives (probably) committed widespread electoral fraud in the last election.
16The UK is apparently illegally detaining 85 Afghans under "exceptional circumstances" (Sound familiar?)
16Some LGBT rights advocates pull support for Democratic Party followinglack of democratic support for equality in immigration reform and federal employment.
16America's firstpublic monument to atheism.
16And the hits keep on coming for the NSA: Meet PRISM. Update: And making anew toy to make that more efficient.
16first rule of Hunger Club is...
16Sorry sir, the Sale of Goods Act (1979) does not apply to prostitutes and even if it did then it does not warrant an emergency call. Oh, and by the way sir, you do realise that soliciting for sex is a crime?
16Here cometh the tax man for your Bitcoins and World of Warcraft treasures.
16North Korea has blasted claims from defectors that supreme leader Kim Jong-un gave out copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to officials on his birthday. North Korea denounced the defectors as "human scum" and threatened to kill them.
16Buzz wants a colony on Mars.
16John Stossel pulls a stopped clock and shuts down an anti-video game commentator.
16First known mole in the WikiLeaks who leaks info to the FBI.
16Millions of Egyptians take to the streets against the Muslim Brotherhood, two years after the ousting of Hosni Mubarak. Update:Now considered "the biggest protest in Egypt's history."
16(Miniature) human organ in mice brought to you by human stem cells.
16The Advertising Standards Authority tells Amazon that saying "our computer did it" isno excuse for displaying a publisher's description if it's dangerous nonsense.
16Exoplanet is blue because of glass rain
16Sanity finally achieved in Ireland.
16Cure forsome lethal genetic diseases brought to you by the HIV.
16Nobody noticed, but just before Canada Day, hate speech quietly fell out of the Human Rights Act. Hate speech is now handled by the courts, not a human rights tribunal, and criminal charges for hate speech require the attorney general's cooperation.
16At the third hop, NSA is already half way to get everyone in the game of 6 degrees of separation.
16"Fat shaming" is making people more obese.
16Bradley Manning: Guilty on 20 charges. Not Guilty of aiding the enemy. Manning could be facing a sentence of more than 100 years.
16I hope you weren't planning on having a good day just now: The Caribbean is losing its coral reefs at a terrifying rate.
16Another big step forward for same-sex equality in US-America.
16Uruguay on the verge of legalising production and sale of marijuana.
16The seventh or eighth shoe drops: The US DEA has been covering up the sources and origins of investigations against Americans. Bonus: A money-laundering metaphor is used to describe this tactic.
16It seems the second verse is truly the same as the first verse
16The Iraq war grinds on: Thirty-three (at least) dead in Baghdad bombings today, more than a thousand last month.
16When Republicans condemn your anti-Obama antics, you know you've gone too far.
16Hang on, isn't this the plot of C.S. Lewis's novel The Last Battle?
16Your tax dollars at work: NSA has command center(s) themed after Star Trek.
16Harper's logic goes to brand new lows: Switzerland, Norway, Slovenia, Slovakia and New Zealand may have told us to address violence against Aboriginal women, but since Iran, Cuba and Belarus are also on the list, fuck them!
16Netanyahu, the previous asshole was making speeches on the UN floor denying the Holocaust. Let's see where this goes, ok? Update: And now it just went somewhere.
16It certainly helps that they're supporting the state legal weed law, but Seattle Police continue to win at PR. (In case you missed it: SPD's blotter post after I-502 passed)
16D.C. Trucker protest is an abject failure.
16The Guardian's NSA reports are endangering national security, says politician with photo of secret listening base staff on his website.
16The Koch brothers'-backed Astroturf group Americans for Prosperity is now throwing gobs of money at small-town political races because it would seem that there is no place too small and/or insignificant to warrant the attention of multi-billionaire puppet masters.
16Canada might get a budget surplus. Remember those?
16Dick Cheney is a prick.
16Rightwing nut Larry Klayman calls for Second American Revolution, beginning in Washington DC! Turnout was less than expected.
16China may have disproved the moon landing hoax "theory" more than anyone ever tried.
16"You better lawyer up asshole, because I'm not coming back for 30%, I'm coming back for everything."
16MRAs and 4chan users abuse a college's online form for anonymously reporting rape, with MRAs making more than 400 false rape accusations.
16Look, if Nigel Farage is saying we should let Syrian refugees come to the UK, it might be worth thinking about.
16Al-Qaeda cuts links with 'hardline' Syria group, claims they are too brutal.
16Satanic panic alert! The 19-year-old Pennsylvania woman who (along with her husband) is accused of killing a man that the couple trolled for on Craigslist has claimed in an interview "that she has killed at least 22 other people from Alaska to North Carolina in the last six years as part of her involvement in a satanic cult."
16In an excellent example of a stopped clock, Oklahoma schools are being required to teach personal finance. (warning : autoplay video)
16How conspiracy theories emerge on Facebook. tl;dr Poe's law, crank magnetism.
16Sarah Palin is resigning. Liberals throughout the USA reconsider their atheism.
16Kevin Trudeau goes to prison. Says he's very apologetic.
16Canada's most far-right Tory MP - the answer to Louie Gohmert and a former "professional clown" for James Inhofe, named Rob Anders - goes down to defeat in his own party's nomination.
16The FCC gets a taste of its own medicine— a website throttles their Internet to 1994 speed.
16British police lambasted by judges and activists for using spurious arrests and draconian bail conditions to stifle peaceful anti-fracking protests.
16Remember when Oklahoma voted to ban Sharia law from their state constitution? Oops.
16You've seen it coming: coup d'etat in Thailand by Chan-ocha's military junta.
16"The deadly burglary raised questions about the wisdom of Americans clergy possessing weapons."
16Faux News take a dump all over... Michele Bachmann.
16Things the Bush administration probably did not foresee in 2003: An independent Iraq buying fighter jets from Russia.
16Meanwhile in India, the police help two couples to escape the stigma of premarital sex by forcing them to get married.
16Meet the Muslim-American leaders the FBI and NSA spied on for six years.
16Carbon tax axed in Australia in a 39-32 vote. Hell of a job, Abbott!
16Ukrainian crisis goes from "very concerning" to "ridiculous": As invasion fears increase, Russia effectively sanctions itself.
16Who wants solarbroiled birds for breakfast/lunch?
16President Obama authorises the usage of airstrikes in Syria to combat ISIS.
16"It seems increasingly clear that China has entered a period of 'thickened history' ...in which national politics will remain more eventful and less certain for some time to come."
16Netanyahu: Chickenshit just got real.
16Oh, by the way, the U.S. government is tracking Americans' cell phones with a fleet of spy aircraft.
16The Keystone XL pipeline is down... for now.
16Health officials in Michigan are sounding the alarm thanks to a high rate of vaccine waivers. In California, whooping cough has made a comeback. And the National Hockey League is experiencing an outbreak of mumps.
16ISIS leader: "If there was no American prison in Iraq, there would be no ISIS"
16Russia just won't give up that stoopid story that MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian Su-25.
16Judge overturns California ban on pâté de foie gras.
16Cooperation between British spies and Gaddafi’s Libya revealed in official papers. It's ugly. Meanwhile, the inquiry into the Iraq war by the British parliament gets delayed until after the general election in May 2015.
16Rand Paul's attempt to troll his way into the White House hits a snag.
16Yucky eunuch-y business: It has come to light that Indian celebrity religious guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh convinced 400 people to castrate themselves to bring themselves closer to God in 2000.
16South Africa, where being on live TV doesn't stop you getting mugged.
16A scientific analysis of conspiracy news consumers. Highlights: Both "pro-science polarized" people and "conspiracy anti-science polarized" people form self-selecting groups, conspiracy nuts outnumber us, conspiracy nuts are far more likely to reshare conspiracy articles, pro-science people are more likely to engage contrary articles in comments or conversations.
16“As a matter of long-standing policy, the US does not support political transitions by non-constitutional means. Political transitions must be democratic, constitutional, peaceful and legal.”
16Attempts in explaining the WTF of Americans, part umpteen: There are as many people who believe judgement day will be the cause of apocalypse as people who think climate change will cause said apocalypse.
16Getting gold from shit. A new take on "Where there's muck there's brass!"
16Riposte to California's "Kill the Gays" act: The Intolerant Jackass Act
16You need to pay a fine to exercise your liberty of not trolling attending Ted Cruz's speech about running for president at Liberty University.
16Noah way!! Guess who's replacing Jon Stewart...
16Is America beginning to accept atheists? ( Probably not, but hey.)
16The Comcast and Time Warner merger has died.
16Suffer not the witch to live! JK Rowling allegedly didn't get an honour in the US for some interesting reasons.
15Cult convicted of fraud, but only in France.
15Do you know what "strict liability" is? It means that Paul Clarke of Reigate will now be serving 5 years in jail for doing the right thing.
15At an anti-immigration rally, one brave patriot demands the government get to the root of the matter, with a rousing chant of "Columbus Go Home! Protestors take an embarrassingly long time to realize they've been trolled.
15A large city has just elected a gay mayor. Where is this city? Texas.
15 On the day that Obama had promised Gitmo would be closed by, US panel recommends that 47 men be sentenced to life in prison without a trial. Fuck you, habeas corpus!
15Congratulations, Conservapedia, for taking over the Texas State Board of Education! US history will omit Ted Kennedy and Sonia Sotomayor, but will teach about Phyllis Schlafly
15The UK Government, after extensive lobbying from the Catholic Education Service, is going to allow a religious schools an opt-out of the law requiring sex education in schools. Religious schools will still be required to deliver sex education, but they're allowed to do it in a way that's compatible with their religious beliefs. i.e. Catholic sex education will consist of explaining what condoms are for and then threatening the children with eternal torture in Hell if they should ever consider using such wicked devices. Hooray for STDs and teen pregnancy!
15One quarter of American parents -- 29% of mothers, 17% of fathers -- believe that immunizations cause autism.
15So how did the free market react to the government take over of 16% of the economy and the approach of socialism? By posting an 18 month high.
15The UK General Election has been announced for May 6th.
15The headline says it all: "Extramarital sex fuels earthquakes, warns Iran cleric."
15The US House of Representatives voted to allow military commanders to get rid of Don't Ask Don't Tell
1562 foot-tall statue of Jesus, nicknamed Touchdown Jesus, incinerated by bolt of lightning. Zeus: 1, Jesus: 0.
15BP truly cares about the environment. So much so that they prevent a sea captain from rescuing endangered species of sea turtle from burning alive.
15We predict fundie and Daily Heil condemnation in 3... 2... 1. Update: Well, not quite the Fail
15Doctor's Data, a laboratory providing testing services for chelation therapy practitioners, sues Quackwatch - alleging defamation, with the usual "We're licenced and everything, so stop saying bad things about us" spiel. Quackwatch asked for clarification, due to the original claim from Doctor's Data being somewhat vague. Doctor's Data helpfully responds by suing. Quackwatch is accepting donations towards their legal costs.
15Dept. of you couldn't make it up. According the the Vatican ordaining women is as grave an offence as paedophilia.
15Fuck Chinese medicine!
15Japan's oldest man (111 years) has died. Er, 30 years ago.
15Those evil, liberal, atheist, commie, muslim, nazis are once again refusing to be charitable. Bastards.
15Elena Kagan is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice 63-37.
15Captain's log; Stardate: sometime soon. Our mission: to search for the anti-universe. Wait... what?
15An armed man entered the Discovery Communications HQ building and took hostages, demanding his nutty ideas about population control and immigration to be broadcast. He was shot by the police. The Discovery Institute creamed their pants, blaming the incident on "Darwinism", while the main-stream media in the US seem to be aiming for the "environmentalists are nuts" angle...
15US executes "borderline disabled" grandmother. Think the death penalty is a good idea? So do DR Congo, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China - the only countries to execute more of their citizens than the US.
15Scary times. The first computer worm that specifically targets secure infrastructure, and may well have been sponsored by a nation state, rather than a bunch of script-kiddies. (More geeky information at Wired.)
15First traces of life pushed back to 3.3 billion years ago (As reported in [dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.09.008 Earth and Planetary Science Letters])
15Minnesota Public Radio makes a shocking revelation: "There may be a religious undercurrent to the harassment of teens who are seen as gay." What will they think of next, that the Spanish Inquisition was religiously motivated or something?
15Water shortages are only a 3rd World problem, right? Wrong.
15Unemployed English Girl to Wed Soldier from Welfare Family!
15Will Sarah Palin let herself be interviewed again by the journalist who showed her up to be a bubble-headed moron? You betcha life not!
15What happened when I went undercover at a Christian Gay-to-Straight Conversion Camp.
15Oxygen scooped from Rhea.
15The American Civil War is being re-branded by many Southern states before the anniversary celebration to be about "States Rights". Many are playing down, or down right ignoring, anything to do with buying and selling human beings. What is publicly emphasized is their fight in order to protect their freedom and independence from invasion from the warring North.
15In 2009, one of Iran's most prominent film directors made a film criticizing the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In return, Iran has sentenced him to 6 years in prison and has banned him from writing screenplays, directing films and traveling abroad for 20 years.
15What's in a name? Well, when you consider the acronym for the CIA's "Wikileaks Task Force..."
15Pat Robertson favors decriminalizing personal possession and consumption of marijuana. No, really! Here's video proof!
15David Cameron:The Big Society means cutting back on Government run projects and having both secular and faith-based charities provide those services instead. 'Fuck off,' says the Bishop of Leicester. Or he would have done, if he was the kind of Bishop that used that kind of language.
15Dick Cheney officially becomes one of the undead.
15Signs that we've reached the tipping point? Or just a handful of freaky coincidences? In less than a week since New Year's Day, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky and Sweden have all experienced clusters of mass bird die-offs. (This just in: You can add East Texas to the list.) Arkansas and Maryland have also experienced mass fish die-offs. So have New Zealand and Brazil. Also, it was just announced that the populations of four species of American bumblebees have declined by 96% over the past few decades.
15President Obama invited John Boehner to fly with him on Air Force One to the Tucson memorial service. Boehner declined. He instead attended a partisan fundraiser "reception" for his choice to replace Michael Steele as chair of the Republican National Committee.
15The dead have risen! And they're giving to the Tea Party!
15Some commentators have stopped blaming right-wingers, atheists, left-wingers, white Christians, nihilists, etc. for the Giffords shooting and started blaming Jared Loughner's ex-girlfriend, who they claim "broke his heart." (Six years ago.)
15Update: Congresswoman Giffords has been move to a rehabilitation facility in Houston, and remains in the Intensive Care Unit there, treating a fluid buildup in her brain.
15Just another Catholic child molestation case: this Rev. was appointed to an archdiocesan sexual abuse advisory board, perhaps because he was an authority on the subject? At the time officials at both his order and the archdiocese knew that he admitted his sex addiction caused him to molest little girls.
15ImageShack joins the Good Fight.
15Global warming got you down? No problem, just repeal greenhouse gases!
15An opinion poll in the US shows union-busting is opposed by 61% of the population and supported by 33%. Fox news takes these figures and reverses them - quite by accident, of course...
15David Barton: "Christians must take control of the culture and media so that "guys that have a secular viewpoint cannot survive," because Christians will "chop that kind of news off."
15Anti-gay protester arrested for... ahem... pleasuring himself in public while watching children.
15Peter Chan's Thai airline, PC Air, moves to become even more PC by recruiting transsexual cabin staff.
15Priest sentenced to 15 years for abusing boys.
15Was Michelle Bachmann homskolled?
15The International Commission of Labor Rights has served notice that Scott Walker's recent actions in Wisconsin are illegal.
15For the first time, a majority of Americans support gay marriage, and now in a shockingly hypocritical ironic twist, Republicans complain that the Democrats might be using this as a wedge issue against them
15The anti-tax, small government party wants the IRS to audit abortions.
15The TSA recently fired a Wicca practitioner after a coworker complained that she had hexed the heater in her car not to work.
15China has recently seen a large surge in the number of scientific papers it produces. According to a Nottingham University professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies, the next step for Chinese scientists is actually to put something in the papers they publish.
15Uterus? Think of the children!!!
15Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, the man who once said one of the lessons of the financial crisis was to "apply basic standards to how we compensate people in our industry," is back to getting multi-million dollar bonuses.
15Rio school shooting 13 dead. "I've never seen anything like this. It's like something in the United States."
15Political parties campaigning against the Alternative Vote in the UK include the Tories, the BNP, the Communists and... well that's it, really.
1512 April: 50 years since the first human in orbit and 30 years since the first Space Shuttle flight. Time for a party!
15The Armenian Genocide deniers who sued the University of Minnesota for labeling their website "unreliable" have had their backsides handed to them by the court. Being sore about this, they make some noise about how the ruling will lead to book-censorship, Nazi style.
15Senator John Ensign (R-Nevada) resigns to avoid pesky proceedings on his sex scandal.
15David Blunkett admits that the No to AV campaign did just pull "AV will cost £250 million" out of their arse.
15The UK electorate rejects Alternative Vote in favour of continuing the First Past The Post system in a national referendum with an overwhelming 70% No to AV vote, proving once and for all that if you attack strawmen hard enough, people will not only begin to think they're the real thing, but will actually join in.
15The Pacific island nation of Samoa time travels into the future
15After big successes in the USA and Canada, the sluts march into London.
15In Conservapedian reality, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver broke up because he should have married a conservative rather than a liberalimg. Back in that pesky real reality, it's actually down to yet another Republican politician who can't keep his dick in his pants.
15Atheists have best sex lives.
15The Ryan budget dies in the Senate: Five GOP Senators vote against it.
15GOP to public: We're gonna get SeriousTM and have an Adult ConversationTM about the debt ceiling. GOP to Wall Street: Nah, just kidding, we're totally fuckin' around.
15Gay Day, Gay Day, Gay Day!
15NBC drops "under god" from the pledge during the US Open golf tourney, wingnuts predictably flip out. Shouldn't we respect the "original intent" of Francis Bellamy?
15And you thought hentai tentacle porn was just the product of fevered Japanese imaginations?
15It's not Soylent Green. It's much, much worse.
15You thought legalisation of gay marriage in New York was enough of a win? Well, after the vote, some photographer managed to capture Brian Brown of National Organization for Marriage crying in a corner. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
15Minnesota hurtles toward a state of emergency, as the government shutdown threatens the beer supply.
15Well, this explains everything about Russia...
15God has a 52% approval rating.
15"Act of God" disrupts Ratzinger's anti-gay speech.
15According to right-wingers, the (innocent) Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi has been living the good life in Tripoli. In reality, he's comatose, and in an oxygen mask and hooked up to a drip. PARTY!!!
15Wikileaks leaks all of the 250 000 unedited US diplomatic cables due to some idiotic security failures and a conflict of egos. Ooops!
15A new renewable energy source? Shit!
15Go to Jesus or go to jail
15"It contradicts everything [we are] in business to do – provide therapies that improve people's lives", says a Danish drug company protesting its drug being used to systematically kill people in US prisons.
15In order to prove that the poor are more likely to abuse drugs, Florida's Republican governor Rick Scott goaded the state legislature into passing a law requiring all welfare recipients to submit to drug testing. Can you guess the preliminary results?
15"Under the Conservatives’ omnibus crime legislation, a person growing pot plants in a rental unit would receive a longer mandatory sentence than someone who forces a five-year-old to have sex with an animal."
15Harold Camping is wrong again. His revised prediction of an October 21 apocalypse was disproved as the day began on October 22, perfectly normally, in some far-east territories such as Japan. More lulz to come once Camping's new new new prediction comes out soon. UPDATE: No new prediction, just a request for more money.
15Just clicking this headline is a waste of your time.
15Archdiocese of Boston: Homosexuality is caused by Satan interfering with pregnant women. Oh yes, and he's responsible for natural disasters too. Update: Avila tenders his resignation.
15Australia finally drags itself into the real world.
15Ohioans repeal Governor Kasich's attempt to strip collective bargaining rights for public sector unions.
15OWS spawns a fledgling third party in Ohio. Just give it a better name, guys.
15Parents of 'Adolf Hitler' Lose Custody of Newborn
15Australian MP desperately warns the populace that Australians are unknowingly being converted to Islam by eating Halal meat.
15Atheists considered as untrustworthy as rapists, a new study finds. Watch out children, there's an unbeliever under your bed! Update: Full paper available here.
15Were Herman Cain's staff pranking him the whole time? First there was the economic plan from "Sim City;" now he's quoting from Pokémon 2000: The Movie.
15Another staunch anti-homosexual mega-church leader discovered to be closet homosexual. Can we say Haggard's Law?
15Newt Gingrich states there is no such thing as Palestine or Palestinians.
15David Frum gives Fox News an appropriate description of their actions.
15Scientists discover giant methane plumes bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Sea. - hmmm, sounds familiar...
15War in Iraq declared over.
15Catholics demand tolerance for their views. Of course, only their views should be tolerated.
15Goddamn! Are there any straight Republicans out there? (and Toronto does what it does best...*wink* *wink*)
15Demonstrations break out after members of an expanding Jewish fundie population call an eight-year-old a slut and a whore.
15Romney wins by only 8 votes in the Iowa caucus. His challenger? Rick Santorum. The Internet rejoices.
15Republicans complain about the US' lack of "rags to riches" economic mobility, then ironically cite Canada, Norway, Finland, and Denmark as countries to envy.
15A file-sharing religion called the Missionary Church of Kopimism has been recognized by the Swedish government.
15Santorum compares (not for the first time) homosexual marriage to polygamy, gets booed.
15Well, that puts the blocks on teaching creationism and I.D. in British schools. (Shame! snorkle!)
15If this isn't irony, I don't know what is.
15Stephen Colbert transfers his Super PAC powers to Jon Stewart and is officially running for President of the United States. Again.
15Rick Santorum's family in Italy are a pack of communists who are largely embarrassed by him. How do you like them family values?
15Release the birth cert... I mean, tax returns!
15Britain's hate crime laws aren't just about Neo-Nazis
15What NASA calls The Most Amazing Highest Resolution Image of Earth Ever. [Note: Earth = North America] It's the only Earth we have, folks. Take care of it.
15"Secular elite promoting radical Islam." With Newt the hits just keep coming.
15Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
15New Jersey legalises gay marriage. Christie vetoed.
15O Canada, our home and nativ-OH DEAR GOD WHAT IS THAT THING?
15Maryland becomes the latest US State to have the religious wingnuts frothing at the CENSORED
15JFK makes Santorum cry from beyond the grave.
15Study shows that greedy, pushy people have more stuff.
15“I did veto a bill on gay marriage, not on gay rights”. What?
15The NDP to Stephen Harper: Check.
15Harold Camping admitting he's wrong? That's new.
15Well, at least they finally stop pretending intelligent design as a science by suing for discrimination on religious grounds.
15Is it too early to order some Mammoth steak?
15They keep playing that one note. Anti-Evolution ‘Monkey Bill’ Poised To Become Law In Tennessee.
15Remember, not everyone in the world is a total jerk: donations to the Samaritans, in the name of the woman who died in the London Marathon, exceed £200,000 £400,000 £500,000 £700,000.
15LHC destroys the world No, but something just as exciting.
15Nevada issues a driver's license to a car.
15Hey, Texas kills another innocent! Rick Perry now seriously considering a death lottery as a means to sate citizens' bloodlust
15After a 2008 car accident left a 71-year-old man paralyzed, doctors managed to bypass the damaged nerves through surgery. While he was able to move his arm, he had still lost the ability to pinch and grab with his fingers... until now.
15Members Of Congress Speak Like High School Sophomores, and the worst offenders are all Republicans.
15Muslims don't understand democracy Egyptians vote freely for a new President. Just hope for a secularist though.
15The Dominion of Canada is dying. Update: Speaking of Tories, WTF?
15Terry Jones (no, not the funny one) hangs an effigy of Obama outside his church.
15After failing to get Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal) to give him twenty grand, the latest purveyor of the Streisand effect is now suing the National Wildlife Foundation and the American Cancer Society.
15The T-1000 just became a little bit more possible.
15Yet another stopped clock...Rupert Fucking Murdoch.
15Warning: Graphic imagery. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints apparently half-buries a live cat in concrete to send a message to a former member.
15First came advertising on billboards and the sides of transit buses. Now a minor league baseball team has agreed to allow Minnesota Atheists to sponsor a promotion night. So, if you're in the Twin Cities on August 10, you may want to attend "A Night of Unbelievable Fun."
15It appears Libya has proven the world wrong - the (moderately) liberal National Forces Alliance has beaten Islamist parties in the first election since Gaddafi's death. This guy will likely become Prime Minister.
15Mitt Romney fully discloses 12 2 0 years' tax returns
15The church that split from the Catholic Church, in order to redefine marriage, is against redefining marriage.
15Contender for the most nerdgasmic headline ever: Brian Cox receives degree from Sir Patrick Stewart
15Pregnant? Y'all ain't comin' to our school! Screw Title IX!
15Scientologists ♥ Ron Paul.
15Faux News decides it's ok if they put US servicemen and their families in harm's way.
15Regret running back to the GOP, Ron?
15And yet a textbook that says the Loch Ness Monster disproves evolution and another one that says electricity is a mysterious force is perfectly fine.
15Anti-gay activist taken into custody for underage homosexual sex. What is it with these guys?
15Sasquashed
15Mars disowns deep-fried Mars Bars because they are counter to their "healthy" image.
15An Australian general practitioner -- who is also a member of a radical Christian sect called the Exclusive Brethren -- is banned from practicing medicine for using a particularly nasty form of reparative therapy on a gay teen -- chemical castration.
15Headline of the Year.
15Mittens - take note. Proceeds from the single are to go to charity. No - seriously.
15Republicans look for proof of widespread vote fraud in order to justify the draconian voter ID laws they're backing, and find next to none.
15Man offers $65 million reward to any man who can seduce his lesbian daughter.
15Republicans throw Bush under a bus to compare his handling of Iraq to Obama's handling of Libya.
15Remember the recent study about GM crops giving cancer to rats? Not only was it bogus - the authors also used tricks straight from the cranks' playbook to suppress criticism.
15Damnatione memoriam pro Lance Armstrong
15Bloomberg backs Obama, slams Romney. Booyakkahsa.
15St. Paul Pioneer Press doesn't have a Kluwe, when it comes to marriage equality.
15Familial dishonour painfully claims another young victim.
15One for the birthers - Barack and Mitt are both born in Kenya!
15Way to make PETA look sane by comparison.
15Four new studies: college diversity promotes critical thinking, which might explain why Texas Republicans are against teaching critical thinking skills.
15Playing dirty in candyland: Austrian thieves drive off with 18 tons of chocolate.
15Obama to Colorado and Washington: "Toke up, dudes."
15Daniel Inouye, the first Japanese-American in Congress and the Senate's most senior member, has died aged 88.
15Kim Jong-un makes a speech on TV and stresses the necessity of both avoiding war, and, um...continuing build on an already enormous military. What?
15Holy. Fuck. Nicolas.
15Aaron Swartz kills himself. (How significant? Even Tim Berners-Lee weighs in.)
15Newly discovered largest known prime number (257,885,161-1) is 17,425,170 digits long. The previous largest known prime number, discovered in 2008, was a mere 12,978,189 digits long.
15Fuck you, Tory scumbags
15I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was...to catch Fox is my real test, to train them is my cause!
15Capitalist spits in the face of labor rights. (And lectures French officials in English. Well done.)
15Two-body interactions: A Longitudinal Study: Physicist proposes in science paper. No word on how this will be peer-reviewed.
15Swedish wieners cut off in UK
15Mars space proposal #46: Hitch a sexually active middle-aged couple in a refrigerator-sized, radiated capsule for 500 days for a flyby 5 years from now without any re-entry plan. The cost - 1/10 of an Apollo mission. The sane person's reaction - [18]
15Haven't the Bush family fucked up the world enough already? Jeb's "...not going to declare today, ..."
15Superman: If Orson Scott Card's writing it, I'm not drawing it
15That didn't take long to rectify
15Things you may not know about the Italian prosecution of Amanda Knox: The prosecutor is under indictment for misconduct; he has based many of his cases -- including this one -- on the rantings of a conspiracy theorist blogger; the blogger and the prosecutor claim that the murder of Meredith Kercher was a typical Halloween satanic ritual; and, most importantly, somebody else has already been convicted of the crime. If you watch the 45-minute video, take note of the crucifixes hanging in the courtroom.
15Sherry Shriner's apocalyptic, NWO, UFO crankery drives unfortunate Detroit woman to suicide... or is that what they want you to believe?
15On the night that submissions for the board of Ireland's constitutional convention close, enormous support for same-sex marriage floods in.
15Birds evolve to avoid becoming roadkill.
15Christians rush to the Supreme Court in the wake of the Prop 8 case screaming about states' rights and their imaginary world in which the USA is run on mobocracy. Bonus points for non-white Christians telling others who they can't marry!
15HIV vaccine possible?
15North Korea declares that it can't guarantee the safety of British diplomats after 10 April, in the event of war. Update: Warns all embassies. Update II: A SK official actually predicted this beforehand.
15Senator Feinstein blames video games for mass violence.
15Android app is developed to help the population of Iceland (300,000) avoid accidental incest.[No, not The Onion]
15Britain, France, and Israel claim repeated use of chemical weapons in Syria.
15Time for more conservative butthurt.
15Who doesn't like stem cell research now?
15Three Ohio women were from a Cleveland house where they'd been kidnapped and held for about a decade. Bonus: The neighbour who helped rescue one of the three and called 911 gives an interview that ends up getting way too real for the local news.
15The Internet is down in Syria. Update: State media - "Oh, it was just a fault in the optical fibre cables!"
15Congressman has a raffle giveaway for the same model of rifle used to slaughter 20 children in Newtown, with the slogan "Grab this gun before Obama does!"
15Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrew Weaver is elected in BC, representing the Green Party (sorry Tim!)
15The Crazification factor has been proven yet again.
15Alright, the PTC can have this one.
15Rescue women, get burgers.
15Hacked phone call embarrasses US Assistant Secretary of State as she's caught saying "Fuck the EU"
15Anonymous pledgesto bring down the English Defence League.
15According to the Toronto Star, everyone's favourite alleged crack-addict Mayor is trying toburn the evidence. Update: And now we know why.
15Assuming gun nuts are to blame, they just gave the gun control movement ammunition(heh) against them.
15NRA gives kid lifetime membership for eating pop-tarts like a rebel.
15got rid of how many demons, Father?
15Everyone, meet the world's oldest known tumor.
15Spanish village solves unemployment problem with the C-word(no, not that one, this one.)
15The Southern Baptists don't hate Gay scouts, they justdon't want them or the people that let them in to be scouts.
15They can talk, and now they can do mathematics.
15Last week, Mitch McConnell said that a proposed constitutional amendment overturning the Citizens United decision was "absurd." So, what will he say about another proposed amendmentthat would make DOMA a part of the U.S. Constitution?
15Bolivian president's plane diverted over fears he's carrying Edward Snowden.
15If you visit a lot of porn websites, you need a good anti-virus program. But, can you guess which type of website is three times more likely to infect your computer?
15Until about 20 years ago, cosmologists theorized that the universe is expanding, but would eventually begin to collapse in on itself. Then along came a new model wherein the expansion is actually accelerating and an eventual collapse won't happen. Now another new model has been introduced wherein the universeisn't expanding. Instead, the mass of everything is increasing, and that just makes it seem as if the universe is expanding.
15Further credence is given to the designation of previously discovered "hobbits" as a separate Hominid Species.
15Helen Thomas dies at 92
15What else do you think is going to happen if you keep asking for a vaccination ban? NOTE: The article is behind a paywall, so try itthis way.
15Vatican-backed very small embryonic-like stem cells, touted as an alternative to stem cells, turn out to be fake.
15You'd think we wouldn't have another human rights clusterfuck after Beijing 2008, but no.
15Your Government Spying at Work, Part #4: "We don't need a warrant to know where you have been,because location data was 'clearly a business record' and therefore not protected by the Fourth Amendment."
15Silvio, you're not going anywhere.
15Snowden Saga: It would be a good idea to stop at Anonymous in a speech.
15More Birther nonsense. Update: Enjoy your 8 more months of being a Canuck, sucker!
15Arkansas' Senate passes a law banning certain tattoos and body mods.
15Countdown to fundie wailing, as Tebow gets dropped by the Patriots.
15UK electronics retailer Currys to jobseeker: Entertain me little man! Dance! DANCE FOR ME!
15Yeah, Australia is boned.
15Even beyond his political grave, Berlusconi is still damaging Italy.
15Perhaps not the best way to advance the cause of free speech. UPDATE: Turns out there's someone at Facebook with a shred of human decency.
15In Iceland, elves are in the way. (Can't they just have them sprayed?)
15Provide for the poor? Support Obamacare? Fuck you, socialists! We have a better use for public money! We're going to pay millions of dollars to a couple of billionaire sports team owners so they'll abandon their still fairly new stadiums and be our neighbors. Now THAT'S what we mean when we say "your tax dollars at work"!
15"I’ve never said I wanted to eat her pussy. I would never do that. I'm happily married. I've got more than enough to eat at home." Yes, this quote exists. (Jon Stewart's reaction says it all.)
15Actual physical Bitcoin mining.
15400,000-year-old Denisovan DNA found in Spain. (Popularisation.)
154:00pm - International media on the tarmac: "This story has to be over."
4:30pm - "Fuck."
15Turns out that cats have been using us for far longer than we originally thought.
15McDonald's gives some more advice to its employees. Hilarity ensues once again.
15New York judge says NSA surveillance is legal. Federal court fight!
15After 43 years, 5 of the 8 members of the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI (the group that exposed COINTELPRO) reveal their identities to the public.
15Dana Ullman goes too bloody far. The man's really overdone it using MLK to promote his bullshit.
15The Tories: "Our Olympics, NHS and multiculturalism-hating MP isn't racist for wearing a SS uniform, he's just an arsehole."
15Canada bans Marmite and Irn Bru. Never has there been a clearer case for military intervention. Update: Stand down, emergency over!
15It's hard not to feel sympathy for John McCain. 2008: GOP presidential candidate. 2014: RINO. Preceding source is Fox News, so here is coverage from Salon and Politico.
15Pete Seeger dies.
15North and South Korea begin the first high-level talks since 2007.
15Highly speculative, but the Jet Stream's behaviour could be changing
15"Step 2: Came to believe I didn't need belief in a Higher Power to get sober". Some AA meetings manage to do fine without needing to turn to religion for help.
15If only this happened to another country that invaded a certain state for a similarly trumped-up pretext. Update: And the reaction? Ultimatum to attack! ...no, we didn't call one! What a mess, Putin.
15Media Matters creates new directory of wingnut lies, Mythopedia. Just in time for the Conservative Political Action Conference.
15Payback's a bitch for the bro who outed the Duke porn star.
15Porn problem: not Canadian enough.
15How Quebec intends to sell its "Charter of Values": anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
15They might just have discovered themselves some Gravitational Waves.
15Study shows that both US public and police view black kids as older, less innocent than whites. (Warning: auto play video)
15Kimmy is in a tantrum again. Must be time for more food subsidies.
15Queensland state government goes all-out to market Ben & Jerry's icecream.
15Proof that evolution is a hoax.
15Why the Supreme Court can't be trusted with tech cases.
15Southern Baptist Convention: They're here, they're queer, they're in our churches and we may as well just put up with it now
15The GOP puts their stooges back in their place. (Zing!)
15Ukraine military gets its act together at Donetsk Airport. But note also the increased reports of Russians taking part without much effort at disguise. Update: Here we go again.
15Libya apologizes for detaining a man for black magic.
15Rik Mayall, a true comedy great dies, aged 56.[19] the utter utter b'stard.
15$400 billion dollars spent (the equivalent of two International Space Stations), years overdue in development, and the reality that will make every defence hawk cry.
15How Did the FBI Miss Over 1 Million Rapes?
15On second thought, let's intervene in Iraq as little as possible. (Here's why.)
15Probably, flight tickets can soon again be advertised in the USA with prices excluding taxes and other costs. Who brought this in? Well, this dude.
15Of course the NRA is all about responsibility instead of killing people. Just ignore the part where their general counsel and architect behind the deregulation of guns got away with murder. These are the "good guys with a gun"?
15What's a good way to lure voters? Appeal to their instinctive racism.
15Say hello to USB Type-C: It's symmetrical, so you won't be trying anymore to find the right orientation for plugging it in. Now that's a standard migration worth taking!
15Well, what do you know? Putin is viewing the Ukraine crisis like American conservatives viewed the situation in Iraq.
15Rand Paul, Philosophiser.
15Congressman urges generals to quit as a protest of Obama's foreign policy. Eugene V. Debs went to prison for less.
15Another memorable SCOTUS case coming up: Will Scalia back the God-given rights of Abercrombie & Fitch?
15Such coin! Very Exchange! Much closed! Wow.
15"One of our submarines was last reported near the Stockholm archipelago. We have not heard from her for some time." "Vladimir…You've lost another submarine?"
15Bad weekend for Syria: While Islamic State militants drink expensive Red Bull in front of impoverished masses in Raqqa, Kobani appears to be under attack from the Turkish border.
15Good tidings of great joy: there's a new Ayn Rand novel coming out.
15German court rules that men are allowed to stand and deliver. Yes this is taking the piss!
15Britain invents the protest tax.
15Childhood exposure to smog can have 10 point effect on IQ.
15Notorious British DAESH member Mohammed Emwazi (Jihadi John) reported to have been held in Tanzania for drunkenness in 2009 while trying to join al-Shabaab. Not very Muslim.
15Despite trailing in the polls on the days up to the election, Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party wins 30 seats in Israeli elections, likely securing him the position of Prime Minster. What this means for international relations is not clear.
15Daesh shows its disapproval of the Shi'ite Houthi militia by killing 126 people in Mosque bombings in Yemen.
15Ted Cruz shows off his fantastic political integrity by opting to sign up for Obamacare, saying "we should follow the text of the law".
15U.S. Army apologizes for (lack of) treatment of their members who became victims of chemical weapons in Iraq.
15One dead, two injured after vehicle attempted to ram the entry gates of the NSA campus in Ft. Meade, MD.
15Enoch "Rivers of Blood" Powell now being investigated as part of the historic Westminster paedophile ring. Rumours of him being part of a satanic ritual abuse ring may still be bullshit.
15Paper about plagiarism detection redacted for... plagiarism.
15U.S. House, Senate pass HR2. HR2 (among other things) continues federal funding for "personal responsibility" sexual education at $75 mil/year and increases funding for abstinence-out-of-marriage education from $50 mil/year to $75 mil/year.
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